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title: Maria turned round to pluck them, and found herself face to face wit… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Maria turned round to pluck them, and found herself face to face with the gardener, who caught hold of her, exclaiming, “What are you doing here, you little thief?” Who acts: Maria, gardener, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, with its depend
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 56

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Maria turned round to pluck them, and found herself face to face with the gardener, who caught hold of her, exclaiming, “What are you doing here, you little thief?”

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**Who acts:** Maria, gardener, you · **What happens:** turn, pluck, find, catch, exclaim, do · **To what, where:** medlars, Maria, hold · **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 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, gardener, 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:pg2435:38:56
# text = Maria turned round to pluck them, and found herself face to face with the gardener, who caught hold of her, exclaiming, “What are you doing here, you little thief?”
1	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Maria |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | Maria *not said here* | medlars *= medlar* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | Maria *not said here* | Maria |  |  |  | with the gardener | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Theme face=Attribute |
| 4 | **catch** | past | the gardener | hold of Maria |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | the gardener *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **thief** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hold** |  |  | Maria |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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 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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