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title: Muffette grew every day more beautiful, and when she was fourteen th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Muffette grew every day more beautiful, and when she was fourteen the kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries sent to ask her in marriage for themselves or their sons. Who acts: Muffette. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 33

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Muffette grew every day more beautiful, and when she was fourteen the kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries sent to ask her in marriage for themselves or their sons.

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**Who acts:** Muffette · **What happens:** grow, be, send, ask · **To what, where:** fourteen kings, fourteen, neighbouring countries, Muffette, marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muffette), 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:pg3027:29:33
# text = Muffette grew every day more beautiful, and when she was fourteen the kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries sent to ask her in marriage for themselves or their sons.
1	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Muffette | the fourteen kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries |  |  | day | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Muffette | fourteen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | the neighbouring countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  | Muffette | marriage |  | for countries *= country* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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