--- title: Breaking one quickly, she found in it some little gold hooks, and wi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Breaking one quickly, she found in it some little gold hooks, and with these fastened to her feet and hands, she mounted the ivory hill without further trouble, for the little hooks saved her from slipping. Who acts: sister, little hooks. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/) / 83 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 83 Breaking one quickly, she found in it some little gold hooks, and with these fastened to her feet and hands, she mounted the ivory hill without further trouble, for the little hooks saved her from slipping. **Who acts:** sister, little hooks · **What happens:** break, find, fasten, mount, save, slip · **To what, where:** one, little gold hooks, end, these, ivory hill, sister 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 (sister, little hooks), 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:pg7277:4:83 # text = Breaking one quickly, she found in it some little gold hooks, and with these fastened to her feet and hands, she mounted the ivory hill without further trouble, for the little hooks saved her from slipping. 1 Breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 obj _ _ 3 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 15 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 without without ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 from from SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 slipping slip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | sister *not said here* | one | | | | quickly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | | 2 | **find** | past | sister | some little gold hooks | | | in end | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic | | 3 | **fasten** | participle · passive | | these | | | | to sister's feet and hands | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | | 4 | **mount** | past | sister | the ivory hill | | | | without further trouble | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | | 5 | **save** | past | the little hooks | sister | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **slip** | gerund | the little hooks *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/84/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/)