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title: Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky, so she pret… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky, so she pretended to be very glad to have got rid of her husband; but all the while she was trying to invent a plan to deliver herself from the turtle. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48

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Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky, so she pretended to be very glad to have got rid of her husband; but all the while she was trying to invent a plan to deliver herself from the turtle.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** see, gain, be, pretend, get, try · **To what, where:** nothing, plan, woman, turtle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg3282:12:48
# text = Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky, so she pretended to be very glad to have got rid of her husband; but all the while she was trying to invent a plan to deliver herself from the turtle.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the woman |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gain** | would | woman | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sulky *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive · perfect | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **try** | past · progressive | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **invent** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 9 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | woman |  | the turtle |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from turtle=Initial\_Location |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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