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title: But she repented bitterly of her words when Pinkel told her that he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she repented bitterly of her words when Pinkel told her that he too was old enough to go out into the world, and that when he had made a fortune he would send for his mother to keep house for him. Who acts: widow, Pinkel. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, wi
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 35

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But she repented bitterly of her words when Pinkel told her that he too was old enough to go out into the world, and that when he had made a fortune he would send for his mother to keep house for him.

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**Who acts:** widow, Pinkel · **What happens:** repent, tell, be, go out, make, send · **To what, where:** words, widow, world, fortune, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, Pinkel), 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:pg3027:16:35
# text = But she repented bitterly of her words when Pinkel told her that he too was old enough to go out into the world, and that when he had made a fortune he would send for his mother to keep house for him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repent** | past | widow | widow's words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Pinkel |  | widow |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Pinkel |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | to-infinitive | Pinkel *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | Pinkel | a fortune |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Product |
| 6 | **send** | would | Pinkel |  |  |  |  | for Pinkel's mother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Pinkel *not said here* | house |  |  |  | for Pinkel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 8 | **word** |  | widow |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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