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title: And the mother of the genius gave a howl of rage, knowing that she c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the mother of the genius gave a howl of rage, knowing that she could neither climb it nor get through it. Who acts: mother, rage. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 3

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And the mother of the genius gave a howl of rage, knowing that she could neither climb it nor get through it.

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**Who acts:** mother, rage · **What happens:** give, know, climb, get, howl · **To what, where:** howl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, rage), 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:pg641:40:3
# text = And the mother of the genius gave a howl of rage, knowing that she could neither climb it nor get through it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the mother of the genius | a howl of rage |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | the mother of the genius *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **climb** | could | mother | howl |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  | howl |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination |
| 5 | **howl** |  | rage |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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