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title: However, she loved Desiree too much to let her suffer more than coul… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, she loved Desiree too much to let her suffer more than could be helped, and it was she who guided Eglantine to the place where the white doe was standing, cropping the grass which was her dinner. Who acts: mother, home, white doe, grass. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 89

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However, she loved Desiree too much to let her suffer more than could be helped, and it was she who guided Eglantine to the place where the white doe was standing, cropping the grass which was her dinner.

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**Who acts:** mother, home, white doe, grass · **What happens:** love, let, suffer, help, be, guide · **To what, where:** Desiree, mother, more, Eglantine, place, grass

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, home, white doe, grass), 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:pg3027:23:89
# text = However, she loved Desiree too much to let her suffer more than could be helped, and it was she who guided Eglantine to the place where the white doe was standing, cropping the grass which was her dinner.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	cropping	crop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | mother | Desiree |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **suffer** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 4 | **help** | could · passive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **is a** | past | home | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **guide** | past | mother | Eglantine |  | the place |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eglantine=Theme to place=Destination |
| 7 | **stand** | past · progressive | the white doe |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **crop** | gerund | mother *not said here* | the grass and mother's dinner |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 9 | **is a** | past | the grass and mother's dinner | mother's dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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