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title: This time the old woman only looked at her grimly but the girl was t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the old woman only looked at her grimly but the girl was too well pleased with herself to care what anyone thought about her. Who acts: old woman, girl, anyone. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 48

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This time the old woman only looked at her grimly but the girl was too well pleased with herself to care what anyone thought about her.

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**Who acts:** old woman, girl, anyone · **What happens:** look, be, care, think

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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 (old woman, girl, anyone), 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:pg3027:11:48
# text = This time the old woman only looked at her grimly but the girl was too well pleased with herself to care what anyone thought about her.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grimly	grimly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the old woman |  |  |  | time | at woman's grimly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grimly=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **care** | to-infinitive | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | anyone |  |  |  |  | about girl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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