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title: The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this offer that… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this offer that the girl felt rather ashamed, and at that moment would have scrubbed down the house if she had been requested; but her mother only begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the river and mend some holes in it, as her fat
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 2

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The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this offer that the girl felt rather ashamed, and at that moment would have scrubbed down the house if she had been requested; but her mother only begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the river and mend some holes in it, as her father intended to go fishing that night.

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**Who acts:** good woman, girl, mother, father · **What happens:** look, feel, scrub down, request, beg, take · **To what, where:** house, girl, fishing net, bank, holes, river

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, girl, mother, father), 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:pg3027:25:2
# text = The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this offer that the girl felt rather ashamed, and at that moment would have scrubbed down the house if she had been requested; but her mother only begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the river and mend some holes in it, as her father intended to go fishing that night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
47	out	out	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	mend	mend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
56	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
64	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	66	xcomp	_	_
68	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	69	det	_	_
69	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the good woman |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **scrub down** | would · perfect | the girl *not said here* | the house |  |  | moment |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source |
| 4 | **request** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | girl's mother |  | girl |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl's mother *not said here* | the fishing net |  | the bank of the river |  | out *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 7 | **mend** | present | girl's mother *not said here* | some holes |  | river |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **intend** | past | girl's father | some holes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **fish** | gerund | girl's father *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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