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title: She proceeded to tell all that had happened to her, and when the mot… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 32

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She proceeded to tell all that had happened to her, and when the mother heard how she had come by her riches, she was most anxious to secure the same luck for her own idle, ugly daughter; so she told her to sit at the well and spin.

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**Who acts:** girl, that, mother · **What happens:** proceed, tell, happen, hear, come, be · **To what, where:** girl, same luck, Mother, 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 (girl, that, mother), 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:pg540:44:32
# text = She proceeded to tell all that had happened to her, and when the mother heard how she had come by her riches, she was most anxious to secure the same luck for her own idle, ugly daughter; so she told her to sit at the well and spin.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
37	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  | girl |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  | by girl's riches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rich=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **secure** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the same luck |  |  |  | for girl's own idle ugly daughter | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition luck=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  | Mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | the well and spin |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at well=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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