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title: To this Eglantine answered nothing; but carefully raising up the doe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To this Eglantine answered nothing; but carefully raising up the doe, she led her slowly to the hut. Who acts: Eglantine. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 82

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To this Eglantine answered nothing; but carefully raising up the doe, she led her slowly to the hut.

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**Who acts:** Eglantine · **What happens:** answer, raise up, lead · **To what, where:** nothing, doe, princess, hut

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eglantine), 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:pg3027:24:82
# text = To this Eglantine answered nothing; but carefully raising up the doe, she led her slowly to the hut.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | nothing |  |  |  | to this Eglantine | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **raise up** | gerund | Eglantine *not said here* | the doe |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doe=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | Eglantine | princess |  | the hut |  | slowly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to hut=Destination |

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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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