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title: Titty went off rubbing her sides; but this time she did not dare to… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Titty went off rubbing her sides; but this time she did not dare to disobey, and in a very bad temper stooped down over the well. Who acts: Titty, Zizi. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 195

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Titty went off rubbing her sides; but this time she did not dare to disobey, and in a very bad temper stooped down over the well.

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**Who acts:** Titty, Zizi · **What happens:** go off, rub, not dare, not disobey, stoop down · **To what, where:** sides, bad temper

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Titty, Zizi), 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:pg540:40:195
# text = Titty went off rubbing her sides; but this time she did not dare to disobey, and in a very bad temper stooped down over the well.
1	Titty	titty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	disobey	disobey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | Titty |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund | Titty *not said here* | Zizi's sides |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | Zizi |  |  |  | time |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **disobey** | to-infinitive | Zizi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stoop down** | participle | Titty *not said here* |  |  | a bad temper |  | over the well | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in temper=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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