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title: Lo, and behold! the spindle leapt from her hand and rushed out of th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo, and behold! the spindle leapt from her hand and rushed out of the room, and when she had sufficiently recovered from her surprise to look after it she saw it dancing merrily through the fields, dragging a long golden thread after it, and soon it was lost to sight. Who acts: girl, room. A sentenc
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 25

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Lo, and behold! the spindle leapt from her hand and rushed out of the room, and when she had sufficiently recovered from her surprise to look after it she saw it dancing merrily through the fields, dragging a long golden thread after it, and soon it was lost to sight.

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**Who acts:** girl, room · **What happens:** rush out, recover, look, see, dance, drag · **To what, where:** room, surprise, fields, long golden thread

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, room), 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:pg7277:44:25
# text = Lo, and behold! the spindle leapt from her hand and rushed out of the room, and when she had sufficiently recovered from her surprise to look after it she saw it dancing merrily through the fields, dragging a long golden thread after it, and soon it was lost to sight.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
36	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	after	after	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	53	advmod	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush out** | past |  | the room |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory |
| 2 | **recover** | past · perfect | girl |  |  | girl's surprise |  | sufficiently *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  | after room |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | girl | room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dance** | gerund | room *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  | merrily *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location |
| 6 | **drag** | gerund | room *not said here* | a long golden thread |  |  | after room |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 7 | **lose** | past · passive |  | room |  |  |  | to sight; soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 8 | **surprise** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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