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title: ‘That’s a reward for being such a good little maid,’ said Mother Hol… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s a reward for being such a good little maid,’ said Mother Holle, and she gave her the spindle too that had fallen into the well. Who acts: That, reward, Mother, spindle. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 28

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‘That’s a reward for being such a good little maid,’ said Mother Holle, and she gave her the spindle too that had fallen into the well.

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**Who acts:** That, reward, Mother, spindle · **What happens:** be, say, give, fall · **To what, where:** reward, spindle, well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, reward, Mother, spindle), 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:pg540:44:28
# text = ‘That’s a reward for being such a good little maid,’ said Mother Holle, and she gave her the spindle too that had fallen into the well.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
17	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a reward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for such good little maid | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a reward |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | Mother | the spindle | reward |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient spindle=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past · perfect | the spindle |  |  |  |  | into the well *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result |

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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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