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title: But she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all wou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all would give slaps and pinches to everyone she could reach. Who acts: bride. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 158

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But she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all would give slaps and pinches to everyone she could reach.

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**Who acts:** bride · **What happens:** go, order, give, reach · **To what, where:** ladies, slaps, everyone

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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:pg540:11:158
# text = But she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all would give slaps and pinches to everyone she could reach.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	slaps	slap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pinches	pinch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | gerund | bride *not said here* |  | ladies *= lady* |  |  | about *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | would | bride *not said here* | slaps and pinches | everyone |  |  | for no fault at all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent slap=Theme for fault=Asset to everyone=Recipient |
| 4 | **reach** | could | bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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