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title: The man’s daughter wept, and was sorely troubled, for Little Snow wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man’s daughter wept, and was sorely troubled, for Little Snow was the dearest thing she had on earth, but at last she threw him overboard. Who acts: daughter, Little Snow. 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 65

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The man’s daughter wept, and was sorely troubled, for Little Snow was the dearest thing she had on earth, but at last she threw him overboard.

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**Who acts:** daughter, Little Snow · **What happens:** weep, be, have, throw · **To what, where:** dearest thing, earth, man, last

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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 (daughter, Little Snow), 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:pg540:47:65
# text = The man’s daughter wept, and was sorely troubled, for Little Snow was the dearest thing she had on earth, but at last she threw him overboard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the man's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | sorely, troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Little Snow |  |  |  |  | for the dearest thing | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | daughter | the dearest thing *not said here* |  | earth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | past | daughter | man |  | last |  | overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=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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