--- title: 'Give me the money, and take the ugly little box off to the outhouse… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Give me the money, and take the ugly little box off to the outhouse,' cried the woman, beside herself with rage, and the girl, quite frightened at her violence, hastened away, with her precious box clasped to her bosom. Who acts: you, precious box, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, precious box, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:11:17 # text = 'Give me the money, and take the ugly little box off to the outhouse,' cried the woman, beside herself with rage, and the girl, quite frightened at her violence, hastened away, with her precious box clasped to her bosom. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 outhouse outhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 beside beside ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 with with SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 clasped clasp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the money | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=Theme | | 2 | **take off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the ugly little box | | | | to the outhouse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | the woman | | | | beside woman; with rage | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 4 | **frighten** | participle | | | | girl's violence | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hasten away** | participle | | | | | | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **clasp** | past | girl's precious box | | | | | to girl's bosom | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to bosom=Co-Patient | | 7 | **bosom** | | girl | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/)