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title: Only the hen-house was left standing; and, in spite of her riches, t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the hen-house was left standing; and, in spite of her riches, there the stepdaughter lived happily to the end of her days. Who acts: hen house, stepdaughter. 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 67

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Only the hen-house was left standing; and, in spite of her riches, there the stepdaughter lived happily to the end of her days.

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**Who acts:** hen house, stepdaughter · **What happens:** leave, stand, live, spite · **To what, where:** hen house, spite, riches

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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 (hen house, stepdaughter), 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:pg3027:11:67
# text = Only the hen-house was left standing; and, in spite of her riches, there the stepdaughter lived happily to the end of her days.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the hen house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the hen house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | the stepdaughter |  |  | spite of stepdaughter's riches; there | to the end of stepdaughter's days | happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | stepdaughter's riches |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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