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title: And not caring what she did, she left the palace and seating herself… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And not caring what she did, she left the palace and seating herself under a yew tree, poured out all her grief. Who acts: queen, yew tree. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 57

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And not caring what she did, she left the palace and seating herself under a yew tree, poured out all her grief.

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**Who acts:** queen, yew tree · **What happens:** not care, do, leave, seat, pour out · **To what, where:** palace, queen, yew tree, grief

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, yew tree), 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:pg3027:27:57
# text = And not caring what she did, she left the palace and seating herself under a yew tree, poured out all her grief.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seating	seat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past | queen | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 4 | **seat** | gerund |  | queen |  | a yew tree |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
| 5 | **pour out** | participle | a yew tree *not said here* | queen's grief |  |  |  | out *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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