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title: Still, to make sure that there was no mistake, she passed her hands… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, to make sure that there was no mistake, she passed her hands lightly over their heads, and felt the caps that covered them. Who acts: mistake, caps. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 33

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Still, to make sure that there was no mistake, she passed her hands lightly over their heads, and felt the caps that covered them.

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**Who acts:** mistake, caps · **What happens:** make, be, pass, feel, cover · **To what, where:** hands, heads, caps

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistake, caps), 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:pg641:41:33
# text = Still, to make sure that there was no mistake, she passed her hands lightly over their heads, and felt the caps that covered them.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | still | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **be** | past | no mistake |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | mistake | mistake's hands |  | hands's heads |  | lightly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over head=Destination |
| 4 | **feel** | past | mistake *not said here* | the caps |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | past | the caps | caps *= cap* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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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