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title: One day as she sat, quite tired and sad, on the bank of a little bro… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as she sat, quite tired and sad, on the bank of a little brook, cooling her white feet in the clear running water, and combing her long hair that glittered like gold in the sunshine, a little bent old woman passed by, leaning on a stick. Who acts: Turritella, long hair. A sentence of «The Gr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 67

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One day as she sat, quite tired and sad, on the bank of a little brook, cooling her white feet in the clear running water, and combing her long hair that glittered like gold in the sunshine, a little bent old woman passed by, leaning on a stick.

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**Who acts:** Turritella, long hair · **What happens:** sit, cool, run, comb, glitter, pass by · **To what, where:** bank, white feet, clear running water, long hair, sunshine, little bent old woman

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Turritella, long hair), 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:pg7277:4:67
# text = One day as she sat, quite tired and sad, on the bank of a little brook, cooling her white feet in the clear running water, and combing her long hair that glittered like gold in the sunshine, a little bent old woman passed by, leaning on a stick.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
48	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Turritella |  |  | the bank of a little brook | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 2 | **cool** | gerund | Turritella *not said here* | Turritella's white feet |  | the clear running water |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **comb** | gerund | Turritella *not said here* | Turritella's long hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 5 | **glitter** | past | Turritella's long hair |  |  | the sunshine |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 6 | **pass by** | participle |  | a little bent old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lean** | gerund | Turritella *not said here* |  |  | a stick |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location |

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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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