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title: The poor girl loved him with her whole soul, and she was more unhapp… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor girl loved him with her whole soul, and she was more unhappy than she had been before, when Burchard was only tormenting her body. Who acts: poor girl, girl, Burchard. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 120

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The poor girl loved him with her whole soul, and she was more unhappy than she had been before, when Burchard was only tormenting her body.

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**Who acts:** poor girl, girl, Burchard · **What happens:** love, be, torment · **To what, where:** Guilbert, body

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, girl, Burchard), 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:pg540:42:120
# text = The poor girl loved him with her whole soul, and she was more unhappy than she had been before, when Burchard was only tormenting her body.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tormenting	torment	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the poor girl | Guilbert |  |  |  | with girl's whole soul | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **torment** | past · progressive | Burchard | girl's body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer |

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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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