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title: Ever since her own daughter was born the mother had given her all th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ever since her own daughter was born the mother had given her all that she cried for, so she grew up to be as cross and disagreeable as she was ugly. Who acts: woman. 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 13

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Ever since her own daughter was born the mother had given her all that she cried for, so she grew up to be as cross and disagreeable as she was ugly.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** bear, give, cry, grow up, be · **To what, where:** own daughter, mother, woman

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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), 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:pg3027:10:13
# text = Ever since her own daughter was born the mother had given her all that she cried for, so she grew up to be as cross and disagreeable as she was ugly.
1	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | woman's own daughter |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the mother | woman |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow up** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |

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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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