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title: She was very glad to see the hen, which would make them rich once mo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was very glad to see the hen, which would make them rich once more. Who acts: hen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 21

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She was very glad to see the hen, which would make them rich once more.

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**Who acts:** hen · **What happens:** be, see, make · **To what, where:** hen, adventures

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen), 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:pg540:17:21
# text = She was very glad to see the hen, which would make them rich once more.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | hen |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | hen *not said here* | the hen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hen=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | would | the hen | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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