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title: She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing fo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever. Who acts: wife, salad, longing. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 106

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She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever.

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**Who acts:** wife, salad, longing · **What happens:** make, taste, forbid, be, long · **To what, where:** leaves, salad

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, salad, longing), 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:pg540:41:106
# text = She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advcl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | wife | leaves *= leaf* |  | a salad |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into salad=Product |
| 2 | **taste** | past | a salad |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **forbid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **is** | past | wife's longing for the forbidden food |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **long** |  | wife |  |  |  |  | for the forbidden food | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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