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title: But of course she took good care that her own daughter's flax was fi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But of course she took good care that her own daughter's flax was fine and strong, while the stepsister had only some coarse stuff, which no one would have thought of using. Who acts: woman, flax, stepsister. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 18

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But of course she took good care that her own daughter's flax was fine and strong, while the stepsister had only some coarse stuff, which no one would have thought of using.

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**Who acts:** woman, flax, stepsister · **What happens:** take, be, have, think, use · **To what, where:** good care, coarse stuff, one

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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, flax, stepsister), 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:pg3027:10:18
# text = But of course she took good care that her own daughter's flax was fine and strong, while the stepsister had only some coarse stuff, which no one would have thought of using.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **take** | past | woman | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | woman's own daughter's flax |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | woman's own daughter's flax *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the stepsister | some coarse stuff |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
| 6 | **use** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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