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title: Then suddenly she be-thought her of the chicken bones that she had d… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly she be-thought her of the chicken bones that she had dragged all that weary way, and she said to herself: ‘They would not all have told me to take such good care of these bones if they had not had some good reason for doing so. Who acts: door, ways, good reason, bones. A sentence of «T
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 169

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Then suddenly she be-thought her of the chicken bones that she had dragged all that weary way, and she said to herself: ‘They would not all have told me to take such good care of these bones if they had not had some good reason for doing so.

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**Who acts:** door, ways, good reason, bones · **What happens:** be, drag, say, not tell, take, not have · **To what, where:** weary way, door, ways, me, such good care, good reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, ways, good reason, bones), 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:pg540:12:169
# text = Then suddenly she be-thought her of the chicken bones that she had dragged all that weary way, and she said to herself: ‘They would not all have told me to take such good care of these bones if they had not had some good reason for doing so.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
48	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | door |  |  |  | then | of the chicken bones; suddenly, think *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drag** | past · perfect | door | all weary way |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | door |  | door |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | would · perfect · passive |  | ways *= way* | me |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ways *= way* *not said here* | such good care of this bones |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | ways *= way* | some good reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | gerund | some good reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **care** |  | this bones |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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