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title: But she got no answer, for the maiden was afraid of bringing trouble… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she got no answer, for the maiden was afraid of bringing trouble on her little friends. Who acts: woman, maiden. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 100

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But she got no answer, for the maiden was afraid of bringing trouble on her little friends.

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**Who acts:** woman, maiden · **What happens:** get, be, bring · **To what, where:** answer, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (woman, maiden), 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:pg3027:10:100
# text = But she got no answer, for the maiden was afraid of bringing trouble on her little friends.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | woman | no answer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the maiden *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  | on woman's little friends | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on friend=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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