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title: But the girl was so busy finding a place for it to stand that she to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the girl was so busy finding a place for it to stand that she took little notice of her mother. Who acts: girl, place. 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 61

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But the girl was so busy finding a place for it to stand that she took little notice of her mother.

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**Who acts:** girl, place · **What happens:** be, find, stand, take, notice · **To what, where:** place, little notice, mother

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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 (girl, place), 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:pg3027:11:61
# text = But the girl was so busy finding a place for it to stand that she took little notice of her mother.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | a place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | to-infinitive | place | a place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | girl | little notice of girl's mother |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 5 | **notice** |  |  | girl's mother |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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