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title: And she was very careful, and bent herself out of the way of the bra… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she was very careful, and bent herself out of the way of the branches, and put them aside with her hands; but it was so thickly wooded that it was all but impossible to get forward, and do what she might, she somehow or other tore off a leaf which got into her hand. Who acts: daughter, way, it, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 37

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And she was very careful, and bent herself out of the way of the branches, and put them aside with her hands; but it was so thickly wooded that it was all but impossible to get forward, and do what she might, she somehow or other tore off a leaf which got into her hand.

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**Who acts:** daughter, way, it, leaf · **What happens:** be, bend, put, wood, get, do · **To what, where:** daughter, way, branches, hand

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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 (daughter, way, it, leaf), 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:pg540:29:37
# text = And she was very careful, and bent herself out of the way of the branches, and put them aside with her hands; but it was so thickly wooded that it was all but impossible to get forward, and do what she might, she somehow or other tore off a leaf which got into her hand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	wooded	wood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	csubj	_	_
40	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	obj	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	tore	tore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
53	off	off	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | past | daughter *not said here* | daughter |  | the way of the branches |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme out way=Location |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | daughter *not said here* | branches *= branch* |  |  |  | with daughter's hands; aside *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | past | way |  |  |  |  | thickly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wood** | past | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | all, impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **do** | infinitive | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off a leaf; somehow *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 9 | **get** | past | a leaf |  |  | daughter's hand |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hand=Destination |

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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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