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title: “But where am I to move it to, my child?” asked the old woman, looki… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “But where am I to move it to, my child?” asked the old woman, looking up to the nest, and at the same moment trying to steady the kettle with one hand and the tripod with the other. Who acts: old woman, same moment. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 66

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“But where am I to move it to, my child?” asked the old woman, looking up to the nest, and at the same moment trying to steady the kettle with one hand and the tripod with the other.

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**Who acts:** old woman, same moment · **What happens:** move, ask, look up, try · **To what, where:** patience, kettle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, same moment), 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:pg2435:10:66
# text = “But where am I to move it to, my child?” asked the old woman, looking up to the nest, and at the same moment trying to steady the kettle with one hand and the tripod with the other.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
31	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the old woman *= woman* | patience |  |  |  | to my child *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Result |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old woman |  |  |  | moment |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the nest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nest=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | the same moment *not said here* | the kettle |  |  |  | with one hand and the tripod; with the other; steady *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with hand=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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