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title: ‘The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door,’ replied the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door,’ replied the king. Who acts: ugly headed girl. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 123

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‘The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door,’ replied the king.

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**Who acts:** ugly headed girl · **What happens:** head, stand, reply · **To what, where:** door, king

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugly headed girl), 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:pg3454:8:123
# text = ‘The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door,’ replied the king.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the ugly headed girl |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the ugly headed girl | the king |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |

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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 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.

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