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title: The very next morning the stepmother arrived at the palace with an o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The very next morning the stepmother arrived at the palace with an ointment that the old witch had given her to place upon her daughter's tongue, which would break the dove's spell, if the rightful bride had really been drowned in the sea; if not, then it would be useless. Who acts: stepmother, tong
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 33

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The very next morning the stepmother arrived at the palace with an ointment that the old witch had given her to place upon her daughter's tongue, which would break the dove's spell, if the rightful bride had really been drowned in the sea; if not, then it would be useless.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, tongue, spell, dove · **What happens:** arrive, give, break, drown, be, spell · **To what, where:** palace, old witch, stepmother, spell, rightful bride, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, tongue, spell, dove), 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:pg3027:13:33
# text = The very next morning the stepmother arrived at the palace with an ointment that the old witch had given her to place upon her daughter's tongue, which would break the dove's spell, if the rightful bride had really been drowned in the sea; if not, then it would be useless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	rightful	rightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	really	really	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the stepmother |  |  | the palace with a ointment | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old witch | stepmother |  |  | to place; upon stepmother's daughter's tongue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | would | stepmother's daughter's tongue | the dove's spell |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
| 4 | **drown** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the rightful bride |  | the sea |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | would | spell |  |  |  | then | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **spell** |  | the dove |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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