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title: In came a pair of huge huge hips, and sat down on the thin thin thig… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In came a pair of huge huge hips, and sat down on the thin thin thighs; A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 10

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In came a pair of huge huge hips, and sat down on the thin thin thighs;

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**What happens:** come, sit down · **To what, where:** pair, thin thin thighs

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:38:10
# text = In came a pair of huge huge hips, and sat down on the thin thin thighs;
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thighs	thigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | a pair of huge huge hips |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | the thin thin thighs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thigh=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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