--- title: She soon grew quite fat with all the corn she earned with the help o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She soon grew quite fat with all the corn she earned with the help of her pot, and then one evening she picked up a pumpkin seed in a corner, and planted it near her well, and it sprang up, and gave her many pumpkins. Who acts: Girl, seed. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girl, seed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:20:58 # text = She soon grew quite fat with all the corn she earned with the help of her pot, and then one evening she picked up a pumpkin seed in a corner, and planted it near her well, and it sprang up, and gave her many pumpkins. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 earned earn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 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 11 obl _ _ 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 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pumpkin pumpkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 planted plant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 near near ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 38 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 pumpkins pumpkin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Girl | | | | | fat, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **earn** | past | Girl | all corn *not said here* | | | | with the help of Girl's pot | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | | 3 | **pick up** | past | Girl | a pumpkin seed | | a corner | evening | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic | | 4 | **plant** | past | Girl *not said here* | seed | | | | near Girl; well *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near she=Destination | | 5 | **spring up** | past | seed | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give** | past | Girl *not said here* | many pumpkins | Girl | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pumpkin=Theme | | 7 | **help** | | | Girl's pot | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/59/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/)