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title: At length, one day, the girl was bidden by her mistress to come into… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, one day, the girl was bidden by her mistress to come into the kitchen, and when there, the old woman said to her: 'I know you can tend cows and keep a diary; now let me see what you can do besides. Who acts: mistress, old woman, I, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

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At length, one day, the girl was bidden by her mistress to come into the kitchen, and when there, the old woman said to her: 'I know you can tend cows and keep a diary; now let me see what you can do besides.

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**Who acts:** mistress, old woman, I, you, me · **What happens:** bid, come, say, know, tend, keep · **To what, where:** girl, length, kitchen, wife, cows, diary · **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 (mistress, old woman, I, you), 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:pg3027:10:77
# text = At length, one day, the girl was bidden by her mistress to come into the kitchen, and when there, the old woman said to her: 'I know you can tend cows and keep a diary; now let me see what you can do besides.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
37	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	50	obj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
51	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | past · passive | wife's mistress | the girl |  | length and one day |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | wife's mistress *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  | wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tend** | can | you | cows |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a diary |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **do** | can | you | besides |  |  |  |  | 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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