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title: And now she became brisk and well again, and grew so rosy, and plump… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now she became brisk and well again, and grew so rosy, and plump, and fair that the Queen and her scraggy daughter turned blue and white with vexation at it. Who acts: ear, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 15

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And now she became brisk and well again, and grew so rosy, and plump, and fair that the Queen and her scraggy daughter turned blue and white with vexation at it.

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**Who acts:** ear, Queen · **What happens:** become, brisk, grow, turn · **To what, where:** cloth

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, Queen), 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:pg540:29:15
# text = And now she became brisk and well again, and grew so rosy, and plump, and fair that the Queen and her scraggy daughter turned blue and white with vexation at it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	brisk	brisk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	scraggy	scraggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | ear |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brisk** | infinitive | ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rosy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the Queen and ear's scraggy daughter |  |  | cloth |  | with vexation; blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory |

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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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