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title: So in a week’s time the horse woke up one morning with a sudden shiv… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So in a week’s time the horse woke up one morning with a sudden shiver through all his limbs; and when it had passed away, he found his skin shining like a mirror, his body as fat as a water melon, his movement light as a chamois. Who acts: horse, mistress, skin. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 81

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So in a week’s time the horse woke up one morning with a sudden shiver through all his limbs; and when it had passed away, he found his skin shining like a mirror, his body as fat as a water melon, his movement light as a chamois.

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**Who acts:** horse, mistress, skin · **What happens:** wake up, pass away, find, shine, light · **To what, where:** shiver, skin, body

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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 (horse, mistress, skin), 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:pg641:38:81
# text = So in a week’s time the horse woke up one morning with a sudden shiver through all his limbs; and when it had passed away, he found his skin shining like a mirror, his body as fat as a water melon, his movement light as a chamois.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | the horse |  |  |  | morning; time | with a sudden shiver through mistress's limbs | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shiver=Instrument |
| 2 | **pass away** | past · perfect · passive |  | shiver |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | mistress | mistress's skin |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent skin=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | mistress's skin *not said here* | mistress's body |  |  |  | like a mirror; as fat; as a water melon and mistress's movement light as a chamois | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **light** |  | mistress |  |  |  |  | as a chamois | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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