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title: The cook told her that she might have a place and leave to stay ther… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cook told her that she might have a place and leave to stay there at once and wash up, for the girl who had done that before had just gone away. Who acts: cook, stick, girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 14

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The cook told her that she might have a place and leave to stay there at once and wash up, for the girl who had done that before had just gone away.

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**Who acts:** cook, stick, girl · **What happens:** tell, have, leave, stay, wash up, do · **To what, where:** stick, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, stick, girl), 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:pg540:30:14
# text = The cook told her that she might have a place and leave to stay there at once and wash up, for the girl who had done that before had just gone away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the cook |  | stick |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | might | stick | a place |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | stick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | stick *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 5 | **wash up** | infinitive | stick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the girl | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go away** | past · perfect | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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