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title: Now when the parrot had been a girl she had often heard of this wond… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when the parrot had been a girl she had often heard of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles that had been let into it. Who acts: parrot, girl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 93

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Now when the parrot had been a girl she had often heard of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles that had been let into it.

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**Who acts:** parrot, girl · **What happens:** be, hear, let · **To what, where:** girl, wonderful arch, Arch

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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 (parrot, girl), 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:pg3027:25:93
# text = Now when the parrot had been a girl she had often heard of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles that had been let into it.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | the parrot | a girl |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | girl | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  | of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles; often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 3 | **let** | past · perfect · passive |  | this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles |  | Arch |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |

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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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