--- title: The girl however left her no peace, so she was forced at last to giv… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The girl however left her no peace, so she was forced at last to give in, but she insisted on her putting on a beautiful fur cloak, and she gave her bread and butter and cakes to eat on the way. Who acts: girl, first. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:37:46 # text = The girl however left her no peace, so she was forced at last to give in, but she insisted on her putting on a beautiful fur cloak, and she gave her bread and butter and cakes to eat on the way. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 insisted insist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 on on SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the girl | first's peace | | | | however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 2 | **force** | past · passive | | first | | last | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **give in** | to-infinitive | first *not said here* | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | first | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **put** | gerund | first *not said here* | | | a beautiful fur cloak | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | | 6 | **give** | past | first | first's bread and butter and cakes | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | first *not said here* | | | the way | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **pacify** | | first | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/47/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/)