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title: But if she could not steal the casket and its contents for herself,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if she could not steal the casket and its contents for herself, at least she could get another like it, and perhaps a still richer one. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 23

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But if she could not steal the casket and its contents for herself, at least she could get another like it, and perhaps a still richer one.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** not steal, get · **To what, where:** casket, another, least

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:11:23
# text = But if she could not steal the casket and its contents for herself, at least she could get another like it, and perhaps a still richer one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **steal** | could | woman | the casket and envy's contents for woman |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location casket=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | could | woman | another |  | least |  | like envy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent another=Theme at least=Asset |

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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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