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title: And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever. Who acts: help. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 37

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And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever.

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**Who acts:** help · **What happens:** put down, begin, weep · **To what, where:** head

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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), 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:pg3027:34:37
# text = And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | gerund | help *not said here* | help's head |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 2 | **begin** | past | help |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **weep** | to-infinitive | help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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