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title: ‘Good gracious! child,’ said the old woman, ‘what a figure you’ve got. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Good gracious! child,’ said the old woman, ‘what a figure you’ve got. Who acts: Good gracious child, old woman, you, figure. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 194

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‘Good gracious! child,’ said the old woman, ‘what a figure you’ve got.

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**Who acts:** Good gracious child, old woman, you, figure · **What happens:** say, figure, have, get · **To what, where:** figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good gracious child, old woman, you, figure), 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:pg540:47:194
# text = ‘Good gracious! child,’ said the old woman, ‘what a figure you’ve got.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Good gracious child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **figure** |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | a figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | participle | a figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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