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title: Not many days later the wolf's grandmother, who, with the help of he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not many days later the wolf's grandmother, who, with the help of her relations, had been searching for him everywhere, entered the cottage to buy some sea-urchins' eggs, and saw the skin, which she at once guessed to be that of her grandson. Who acts: help, grandmother. A sentence of «The Orange Fa
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 30

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Not many days later the wolf's grandmother, who, with the help of her relations, had been searching for him everywhere, entered the cottage to buy some sea-urchins' eggs, and saw the skin, which she at once guessed to be that of her grandson.

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**Who acts:** help, grandmother · **What happens:** search, enter, buy, see, guess, be · **To what, where:** cottage, eggs, skin

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, grandmother), 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:pg3027:34:30
# text = Not many days later the wolf's grandmother, who, with the help of her relations, had been searching for him everywhere, entered the cottage to buy some sea-urchins' eggs, and saw the skin, which she at once guessed to be that of her grandson.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
26	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	urchins	urchin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	47	advmod	_	_
47	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past · perfect · progressive | the help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of help's relations; for Wolf; everywhere *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the wolf's grandmother | the cottage |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the wolf's grandmother *not said here* | some sea urchins's eggs |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | the wolf's grandmother *not said here* | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus |
| 5 | **guess** | participle | grandmother | the skin |  |  |  | once *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the skin |  |  |  | of help's grandson | tree rules |

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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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