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title: She ran as fast as she could to her little room under the stairs, bu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She ran as fast as she could to her little room under the stairs, but because she had stayed too long beyond the half-hour, she could not stop to take off the beautiful dress, but only threw the fur cloak over it, and in her haste she did not make herself quite black with the soot, one finger remain
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 79

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She ran as fast as she could to her little room under the stairs, but because she had stayed too long beyond the half-hour, she could not stop to take off the beautiful dress, but only threw the fur cloak over it, and in her haste she did not make herself quite black with the soot, one finger remaining white.

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**Who acts:** cook, one finger · **What happens:** run, stay, not stop, take off, throw, not make · **To what, where:** beautiful dress, fur cloak, ring, cook, haste

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, one finger), 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:pg7277:42:79
# text = She ran as fast as she could to her little room under the stairs, but because she had stayed too long beyond the half-hour, she could not stop to take off the beautiful dress, but only threw the fur cloak over it, and in her haste she did not make herself quite black with the soot, one finger remaining white.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
57	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obj	_	_
58	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	nummod	_	_
65	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
66	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	65	acl	_	_
67	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | cook |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past · perfect | cook |  |  |  | hour | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | could | cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take off** | to-infinitive | cook *not said here* | the beautiful dress |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past | cook *not said here* | the fur cloak |  | ring |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over it=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | cook | cook |  | cook's haste |  | one finger *obl*; black *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product |
| 7 | **remain** | gerund | one finger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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