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title: Still in spite of his warning she trembled all over when a huge wolf… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still in spite of his warning she trembled all over when a huge wolf, as thin as if he had fasted for a month, with claws like saws, and mouth as wide as an oven, bounded howling towards her. Who acts: bade, wolf, father. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended t
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 95

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Still in spite of his warning she trembled all over when a huge wolf, as thin as if he had fasted for a month, with claws like saws, and mouth as wide as an oven, bounded howling towards her.

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**Who acts:** bade, wolf, father · **What happens:** tremble, fast, bound, howl, spite, warn · **To what, where:** spite, warning

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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 (bade, wolf, father), 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:pg641:38:95
# text = Still in spite of his warning she trembled all over when a huge wolf, as thin as if he had fasted for a month, with claws like saws, and mouth as wide as an oven, bounded howling towards her.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fasted	fast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	saws	saw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
41	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
42	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | bade |  |  | spite of father's warning | still | over *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location |
| 2 | **fast** | past · perfect | wolf |  |  |  | month | with claws like saws | tree rules |
| 3 | **bound** | participle | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **howl** | gerund | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards bade | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards she=Recipient |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | father's warning |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **warn** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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