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title: Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers, yet music of a wondrous sweetness poured forth from within. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 112

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Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers, yet music of a wondrous sweetness poured forth from within.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** tear, batter, be, pass, pour · **To what, where:** daughter, many dangers, music

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg3027:7:112
# text = Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers, yet music of a wondrous sweetness poured forth from within.
1	Torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
25	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | daughter |  |  | many dangers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through danger=Location |
| 5 | **pour** | participle · passive |  | music of a wondrous sweetness |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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