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title: Mother Holle led her to the same door as she had done her sister, bu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Holle led her to the same door as she had done her sister, but when she passed through it, instead of the gold rain a kettle full of pitch came showering over her. Who acts: Mother, girl, gold rain. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency t
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 51

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Mother Holle led her to the same door as she had done her sister, but when she passed through it, instead of the gold rain a kettle full of pitch came showering over her.

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**Who acts:** Mother, girl, gold rain · **What happens:** lead, do, pass, come, shower · **To what, where:** girl, same door, sister, door

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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 (Mother, girl, gold rain), 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:pg540:44:51
# text = Mother Holle led her to the same door as she had done her sister, but when she passed through it, instead of the gold rain a kettle full of pitch came showering over her.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	showering	shower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Mother | girl |  | the same door |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | girl | girl's sister |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pass** | past | girl |  |  | door |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | the gold rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shower** | gerund | the gold rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over girl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over she=Destination |

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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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