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title: With a very ill grace the damsel set forth, grumbling to herself as… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a very ill grace the damsel set forth, grumbling to herself as she went; for though she wished for the wreath, she did not at all want the trouble of getting it. Who acts: stepmother, trouble. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

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With a very ill grace the damsel set forth, grumbling to herself as she went; for though she wished for the wreath, she did not at all want the trouble of getting it.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, trouble · **What happens:** set, grumble, go, wish, do, not want · **To what, where:** damsel, stepmother, trouble

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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, trouble), 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:pg3027:12:53
# text = With a very ill grace the damsel set forth, grumbling to herself as she went; for though she wished for the wreath, she did not at all want the trouble of getting it.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	though	though	ADV	RB	_	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  | the damsel *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  | stepmother |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | for the wreath | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for though=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **want** | present | stepmother *not said here* | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | gerund | the trouble *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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