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title: But why does not my lazy girl bring the wood I sent her for, it will… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But why does not my lazy girl bring the wood I sent her for, it will soon be too dark for her to find her way? Who acts: lazy girl, I, wood, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 69

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But why does not my lazy girl bring the wood I sent her for, it will soon be too dark for her to find her way?

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**Who acts:** lazy girl, I, wood, girl · **What happens:** not bring, send, be, find · **To what, where:** wood, girl, way

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lazy girl, I, wood, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:1038`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:17:69
# text = But why does not my lazy girl bring the wood I sent her for, it will soon be too dark for her to find her way?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** | present · do-support | my lazy girl | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | I | girl |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | future | wood |  |  |  |  | dark, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | girl | girl's way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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