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title: Thereupon the Grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the Grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed. Who acts: Grandmother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 79

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Thereupon the Grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed.

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**Who acts:** Grandmother · **What happens:** hasten, dress, tremble · **To what, where:** poor Blanchette, 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 (Grandmother), 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:pg540:33:79
# text = Thereupon the Grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | the Grandmother |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | to-infinitive | the Grandmother *not said here* | poor Blanchette |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanchette=Patient |
| 3 | **tremble** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the bed | still | with fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location |

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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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