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title: And the girl took them to the river and washed hard for several hour… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the girl took them to the river and washed hard for several hours, but wash as she would they never changed one whit. Who acts: girl, 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 94

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And the girl took them to the river and washed hard for several hours, but wash as she would they never changed one whit.

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**Who acts:** girl, woman · **What happens:** take, wash, not change · **To what, where:** yarns, river, one whit

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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 (girl, 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:pg3027:10:94
# text = And the girl took them to the river and washed hard for several hours, but wash as she would they never changed one whit.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the girl | yarns *= yarn* |  | the river |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=Destination |
| 2 | **wash** | participle | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | hard *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wash** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **change** | would | woman | one whit |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whit=Patient |

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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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