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title: At last she took them down to the shore to see a pleasure boat which… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 97

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At last she took them down to the shore to see a pleasure boat which her husband had had made for her; and here, the woman seizing her opportunity, stole softly behind the girl and pushed her off the rock on which she was standing, into the deep water, where she instantly sank to the bottom.

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**Who acts:** woman, husband, pleasure boat · **What happens:** take down, see, have, make, seize, steal · **To what, where:** daughter, last, pleasure boat, opportunity, woman, rock

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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 (woman, husband, pleasure boat), 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:pg3027:12:97
# text = At last she took them down to the shore to see a pleasure boat which her husband had had made for her; and here, the woman seizing her opportunity, stole softly behind the girl and pushed her off the rock on which she was standing, into the deep water, where she instantly sank to the bottom.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
33	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	off	off	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	58	advmod	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | woman | daughter |  | last |  | to the shore | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | a pleasure boat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past · perfect | woman's husband | a pleasure boat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | a pleasure boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **seize** | gerund | the woman *not said here* | woman's opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 6 | **steal** | past | the woman |  |  | here |  | behind the girl; softly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind girl=Location |
| 7 | **push** | past | the woman *not said here* | woman |  | the rock |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme off rock=Trajectory |
| 8 | **stand** | past · progressive | woman |  |  | the rock |  | into the deep water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 9 | **sink** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | to the bottom; instantly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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