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title: And the maiden told her to fear nothing, for she never hurt anything… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the maiden told her to fear nothing, for she never hurt anything, and was very grateful for the oven's kindness in giving her such a beautiful white loaf. Who acts: maiden, clematis. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 36

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And the maiden told her to fear nothing, for she never hurt anything, and was very grateful for the oven's kindness in giving her such a beautiful white loaf.

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**Who acts:** maiden, clematis · **What happens:** tell, fear, not hurt, be, give · **To what, where:** clematis, nothing, anything, beautiful white loaf · **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 (maiden, clematis), 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:pg3027:10:36
# text = And the maiden told her to fear nothing, for she never hurt anything, and was very grateful for the oven's kindness in giving her such a beautiful white loaf.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden |  | clematis |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the maiden *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **hurt** | past | clematis | anything |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the oven's kindness; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | gerund |  | such beautiful white loaf | clematis |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient loaf=Theme |

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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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