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title: After a few weeks the old woman sent for her maid and told her that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few weeks the old woman sent for her maid and told her that as her year of service was now up, she was free to return home, but that, for her part, the girl had served her so well that she hoped she might stay with her. Who acts: old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by And
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 118

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After a few weeks the old woman sent for her maid and told her that as her year of service was now up, she was free to return home, but that, for her part, the girl had served her so well that she hoped she might stay with her.

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**Who acts:** old woman, woman · **What happens:** send, tell, be, return, serve, hope · **To what, where:** woman, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old woman, woman), 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:pg3027:10:118
# text = After a few weeks the old woman sent for her maid and told her that as her year of service was now up, she was free to return home, but that, for her part, the girl had served her so well that she hoped she might stay with her.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the old woman |  |  |  | week | for woman's maid | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | now; year | up *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **serve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hope** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **stay** | might | woman |  |  |  |  | with maid | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |

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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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