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title: She didn’t make Mother Holle’s bed as she ought to have done, and ne… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She didn’t make Mother Holle’s bed as she ought to have done, and never shook it enough to make the feathers fly. Who acts: girl, feathers. 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 48

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She didn’t make Mother Holle’s bed as she ought to have done, and never shook it enough to make the feathers fly.

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**Who acts:** girl, feathers · **What happens:** not make, do, not shake, make, fly · **To what, where:** bed

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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, feathers), 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:pg540:44:48
# text = She didn’t make Mother Holle’s bed as she ought to have done, and never shook it enough to make the feathers fly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | girl | Mother's bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 2 | **do** | ought · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **shake** | past | girl *not said here* | bed |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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