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title: The old woman had risen early to sell herbs in the town, and she had… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman had risen early to sell herbs in the town, and she had gone off in such haste that she had left her bed unmade, with her great night-cap on the pillow. Who acts: old woman, woman, bed. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood, with its d
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 39

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The old woman had risen early to sell herbs in the town, and she had gone off in such haste that she had left her bed unmade, with her great night-cap on the pillow.

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**Who acts:** old woman, woman, bed · **What happens:** rise, sell, go off, leave, unmake · **To what, where:** herbs, town, such haste, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, bed), 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:pg540:33:39
# text = The old woman had risen early to sell herbs in the town, and she had gone off in such haste that she had left her bed unmade, with her great night-cap on the pillow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	unmade	unmake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · perfect | the old woman |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | herbs |  | the town |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme |
| 3 | **go off** | past · perfect | woman |  |  | such haste |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect | woman | woman's bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **unmake** | participle | woman's bed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with woman's great night cap on the pillow | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument |

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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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