--- title: Striding over the blue waters, hopping from wave to wave, one foot r… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Striding over the blue waters, hopping from wave to wave, one foot reaching to heaven, and the other planted in the foam, she was close at their heels, breathing fire and flame, when they stepped on shore from the ship. Who acts: one foot, mother, heels. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one foot, mother, heels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:39:96 # text = Striding over the blue waters, hopping from wave to wave, one foot reaching to heaven, and the other planted in the foam, she was close at their heels, breathing fire and flame, when they stepped on shore from the ship. 1 Striding stride VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 nsubj _ _ 2 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hopping hop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 wave wave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 reaching reach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 22 planted plant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stride** | gerund | | | | the blue waters | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory | | 2 | **hop** | gerund | | | | wave | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wave=Trajectory | | 3 | **wave** | to-infinitive | | one foot | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 4 | **reach** | gerund | one foot *not said here* | | | | | to heaven | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plant** | participle | | | | the foam | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in foam=Destination | | 6 | **is** | past | mother | | | waters's heels | | close *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **breathe** | gerund | mother *not said here* | fire and flame | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 8 | **step** | past | heels *= heel* | | | shore from the ship | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/97/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/)