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title: She had gone with her infant son, who was only two or three months o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had gone with her infant son, who was only two or three months old, to visit her old nurse, who lived in the valley; and she had been detained all night there by a storm. Who acts: Beanstalk, infant son, old nurse, storm. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 22

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She had gone with her infant son, who was only two or three months old, to visit her old nurse, who lived in the valley; and she had been detained all night there by a storm.

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**Who acts:** Beanstalk, infant son, old nurse, storm · **What happens:** go, be, visit, live, detain · **To what, where:** old nurse, valley, Beanstalk

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beanstalk, infant son, old nurse, storm), 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:pg540:16:22
# text = She had gone with her infant son, who was only two or three months old, to visit her old nurse, who lived in the valley; and she had been detained all night there by a storm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	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 · perfect | Beanstalk |  |  |  |  | with Beanstalk's infant son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with son=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | Beanstalk's infant son |  |  |  | month | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Beanstalk's infant son *not said here* | Beanstalk's old nurse |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **live** | past | Beanstalk's old nurse |  |  | the valley |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location |
| 5 | **detain** | past · perfect · passive | a storm | Beanstalk |  | there | night |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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