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title: 'How absurd to walk about on such a pouring night, dressed up like t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'How absurd to walk about on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter. Who acts: stepmother, Wreath. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 45

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'How absurd to walk about on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, Wreath · **What happens:** walk, dress up, remark, pull off, speak, place · **To what, where:** wreath · **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 (stepmother, Wreath), 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:pg3027:12:45
# text = 'How absurd to walk about on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pouring	pouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	crossly	crossly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | to-infinitive | stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  | night | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like that | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | crossly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pull off** | participle |  | the wreath |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Eventuality |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **place** |  | Wreath |  |  |  |  | on stepmother's own daughter | tree rules |

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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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