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title: Then the false bride answered: “She deserves to be put stark naked i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the false bride answered: “She deserves to be put stark naked into a barrel lined with sharp nails, which should be dragged by two white horses up and down the street till she is dead.” Who acts: false bride, bride, two white horses. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 88

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Then the false bride answered: “She deserves to be put stark naked into a barrel lined with sharp nails, which should be dragged by two white horses up and down the street till she is dead.”

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**Who acts:** false bride, bride, two white horses · **What happens:** answer, deserve, put, line, drag, be · **To what, where:** stark, barrel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false bride, bride, two white horses), 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:pg503:37:88
# text = Then the false bride answered: “She deserves to be put stark naked into a barrel lined with sharp nails, which should be dragged by two white horses up and down the street till she is dead.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	stark	stark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RB	_	35	case	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the false bride |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | bride |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | bride *not said here* | stark |  | a barrel |  | naked *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: stark=Goal |
| 4 | **line** *in a quote* | participle |  | a barrel *not said here* |  |  |  | with sharp nails | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme |
| 5 | **drag** *in a quote* | should · passive | two white horses | a barrel |  |  |  | up the street | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bride |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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