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title: So she bade her own daughter sit on the edge of the well, and threw… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she bade her own daughter sit on the edge of the well, and threw her into the water, exactly as she had done to the other girl; and, exactly as before, the flowery meadow lay at the bottom. Who acts: woman, own daughter, flowery meadow. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Openin
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 24

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So she bade her own daughter sit on the edge of the well, and threw her into the water, exactly as she had done to the other girl; and, exactly as before, the flowery meadow lay at the bottom.

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**Who acts:** woman, own daughter, flowery meadow · **What happens:** bade, sit, throw, do, lay · **To what, where:** edge, woman, water, bottom

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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, own daughter, flowery meadow), 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:pg3027:11:24
# text = So she bade her own daughter sit on the edge of the well, and threw her into the water, exactly as she had done to the other girl; and, exactly as before, the flowery meadow lay at the bottom.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	before	before	ADV	RB	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | woman's own daughter |  |  | the edge of the well |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location |
| 3 | **throw** | past |  | woman |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into water=Result |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | to the other girl; exactly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay** | present | the flowery meadow |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at bottom=Destination |

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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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