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title: She sent for her, and with the same threats as before locked her up… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She sent for her, and with the same threats as before locked her up with the three keys, ordering that all the feathers should be sorted by sunset. Who acts: task. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 2

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She sent for her, and with the same threats as before locked her up with the three keys, ordering that all the feathers should be sorted by sunset.

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**Who acts:** task · **What happens:** send, lock up, order, sort · **To what, where:** task, feathers

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), 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:pg540:25:2
# text = She sent for her, and with the same threats as before locked her up with the three keys, ordering that all the feathers should be sorted by sunset.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | task |  |  |  |  | for Princess; with the same threats | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lock up** | participle | task *not said here* | task |  |  |  | with the three keys; before *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with key=Instrument |
| 3 | **order** | gerund | task *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sort** | should · passive |  | all feathers |  |  | sunset |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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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