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title: Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of the nutshell, and ran about on the King’s hand, wagging its tail and barking lustily at all the other little dogs. Who acts: old King, lovely tiny dog. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 8

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Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of the nutshell, and ran about on the King’s hand, wagging its tail and barking lustily at all the other little dogs.

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**Who acts:** old King, lovely tiny dog · **What happens:** have, do, spring out, run about, wag, bark · **To what, where:** old King, nutshell, hand, tail

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, lovely tiny dog), 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:pg7277:30:8
# text = Hardly had the old King done so than a lovely tiny dog sprang out of the nutshell, and ran about on the King’s hand, wagging its tail and barking lustily at all the other little dogs.
1	Hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nutshell	nutshell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
33	lustily	lustily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the old King |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | the old King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spring out** | past | a lovely tiny dog | the nutshell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location nutshell=Theme |
| 4 | **run about** | past |  |  |  | the King's hand |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory |
| 5 | **wag** | gerund |  | hand's tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 6 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at all other little dogs; lustily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dog=Stimulus |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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