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title: After that the wicked stepmother travelled all through the night to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After that the wicked stepmother travelled all through the night to get to the palace as soon as possible, and made her way straight into her daughter's room. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 35

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After that the wicked stepmother travelled all through the night to get to the palace as soon as possible, and made her way straight into her daughter's room.

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**What happens:** travel, get, make · **To what, where:** stepmother, room

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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: 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:pg3027:13:35
# text = After that the wicked stepmother travelled all through the night to get to the palace as soon as possible, and made her way straight into her daughter's room.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past |  |  |  |  | after the wicked stepmother; night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the palace *result*; soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | stepmother |  | stepmother's daughter's room |  | way *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into room=Product |

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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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