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title: Of food she got little or none, and grew pale and thin, and was near… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of food she got little or none, and grew pale and thin, and was nearly always weeping and sad. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 8

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Of food she got little or none, and grew pale and thin, and was nearly always weeping and sad.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** get, grow, weep · **To what, where:** little

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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), 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:pg540:29:8
# text = Of food she got little or none, and grew pale and thin, and was nearly always weeping and sad.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | daughter | little |  |  |  | of food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weep** | past · progressive | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, nearly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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