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title: The girl rose, went to the good dame, and gave her a friendly greeti… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl rose, went to the good dame, and gave her a friendly greeting, but could not help inquiring "What makes you so long lipped?" Who acts: girl, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 6

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The girl rose, went to the good dame, and gave her a friendly greeting, but could not help inquiring "What makes you so long lipped?"

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**Who acts:** girl, you · **What happens:** rise, go, give, not help, inquire, make · **To what, where:** good dame, friendly greeting, girl, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, you), 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:pg14241:31:6
# text = The girl rose, went to the good dame, and gave her a friendly greeting, but could not help inquiring "What makes you so long lipped?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	lipped	lip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | the girl *not said here* |  |  | the good dame |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dame=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | the girl *not said here* | a friendly greeting | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient greeting=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lip** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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