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title: For two days the girl kept shelling; and though she could not see th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For two days the girl kept shelling; and though she could not see the old fairy at all, she could always hear at her side the click of the ears together. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 24

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For two days the girl kept shelling; and though she could not see the old fairy at all, she could always hear at her side the click of the ears together.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** keep, shell, not see, hear, click · **To what, where:** old fairy, all, side, ears

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:30:24
# text = For two days the girl kept shelling; and though she could not see the old fairy at all, she could always hear at her side the click of the ears together.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	shelling	shell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
25	at	at	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	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	click	click	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the girl |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shell** | gerund | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **see** | could | girl | the old fairy |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** | could | girl |  |  | fairy's side |  | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **click** |  |  | the ears |  |  |  |  | nom click «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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