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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 52

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Then she turned him round, and urging him to his fullest speed, never drew rein till she saw the gates of the palace rising before her.

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**Who acts:** girl, palace · **What happens:** turn, urge, not draw, see, rise · **To what, where:** wolf, rein, gates

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:38:52
# text = Then she turned him round, and urging him to his fullest speed, never drew rein till she saw the gates of the palace rising before her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fullest	full	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | girl | wolf |  |  | then | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **urge** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  | wolf |  |  | to wolf's fullest speed | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **draw** | past | girl *not said here* | rein |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | girl | the gates of the palace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gate=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  | before girl |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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