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title: Then she went in to her stepmother, and as she had returned covered… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went in to her stepmother, and as she had returned covered with gold she was welcomed home. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 31

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Then she went in to her stepmother, and as she had returned covered with gold she was welcomed home.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** go in, cover, welcome · **To what, where:** girl

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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 (girl), 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:pg540:44:31
# text = Then she went in to her stepmother, and as she had returned covered with gold she was welcomed home.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | girl |  |  |  | then | to girl's stepmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stepmother=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cover** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  | with gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme |
| 3 | **welcome** | past · passive |  | girl |  |  |  | home *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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