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title: And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her, and t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her, and to tell her that she would kill herself if she did such foolish things. Who acts: law, mother, woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 89

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And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her, and to tell her that she would kill herself if she did such foolish things.

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**Who acts:** law, mother, woman · **What happens:** leave off, come, scold, tell, kill, do · **To what, where:** work, woman, such foolish things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, mother, woman), 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:pg3027:21:89
# text = And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her, and to tell her that she would kill herself if she did such foolish things.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | participle | law *not said here* | woman's work |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | law *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scold** | infinitive | law *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | woman's mother in law |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **kill** | would | woman | woman |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 6 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | woman | such foolish things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 7 | **work** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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