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title: “It is so that maidens are received from their parents’ hands,” said… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is so that maidens are received from their parents’ hands,” said the mother, who hoped to make the king’s son marry Peppina in place of her sister, and had fastened the donkey’s tail round her head like a lock of hair under the veil. Who acts: mother, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 80

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“It is so that maidens are received from their parents’ hands,” said the mother, who hoped to make the king’s son marry Peppina in place of her sister, and had fastened the donkey’s tail round her head like a lock of hair under the veil.

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**Who acts:** mother, son · **What happens:** receive, be, hope, make, marry, fasten · **To what, where:** maidens, hands, son, Peppina, place, tail · **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 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, son), 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:pg2435:36:80
# text = “It is so that maidens are received from their parents’ hands,” said the mother, who hoped to make the king’s son marry Peppina in place of her sister, and had fastened the donkey’s tail round her head like a lock of hair under the veil.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
29	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	round	round	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	under	under	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | maidens |  | maidens's parents's hands |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from hand=Source |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | the mother |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | the king's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the king's son *not said here* | Peppina |  | place of Peppina's sister |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peppina=Patient |
| 6 | **fasten** | past · perfect | the mother *not said here* | the donkey's tail |  | the veil |  | round Peppina's head; like a lock of hair | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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 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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