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title: 'That is a good girl,' said one; 'I really was too weak to stretch o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'That is a good girl,' said one; 'I really was too weak to stretch out a wing before she came. Who acts: That, good girl, I, stepmother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 38

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'That is a good girl,' said one; 'I really was too weak to stretch out a wing before she came.

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**Who acts:** That, good girl, I, stepmother · **What happens:** be, say, stretch out, come · **To what, where:** good girl, one, wing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, good girl, I, stepmother), 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:pg3027:12:38
# text = 'That is a good girl,' said one; 'I really was too weak to stretch out a wing before she came.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a good girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a good girl | one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stretch out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a wing |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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