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title: She was as careful as she could be, and bent aside to get out of the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was as careful as she could be, and bent aside to get out of the way of the branches, and thrust them away from before her with her hands; but every instant a branch struck against her eyes, and in spite of all her care, she happened to pull off one leaf. Who acts: daughter, instant. A sentence 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 54

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She was as careful as she could be, and bent aside to get out of the way of the branches, and thrust them away from before her with her hands; but every instant a branch struck against her eyes, and in spite of all her care, she happened to pull off one leaf.

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**Who acts:** daughter, instant · **What happens:** be, bend, get out, thrust away, strike, happen · **To what, where:** way, branches, branch, eyes, spite, one leaf

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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, instant), 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:pg540:29:54
# text = She was as careful as she could be, and bent aside to get out of the way of the branches, and thrust them away from before her with her hands; but every instant a branch struck against her eyes, and in spite of all her care, she happened to pull off one leaf.
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	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	against	against	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	off	off	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	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 | daughter |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | participle | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | daughter *not said here* | the way of the branches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thrust away** | infinitive | daughter *not said here* | branches *= branch* |  |  |  | from daughter; with daughter's hands; away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **strike** | participle |  | a branch *not said here* |  | daughter's eyes |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against eye=Location |
| 6 | **happen** | past | every instant |  |  | spite of daughter's care |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pull off** | to-infinitive | every instant *not said here* | one leaf |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Eventuality |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | daughter's care |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **care** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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