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title: You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow. Who acts: You, red berries. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 86

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You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow.

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**Who acts:** You, red berries · **What happens:** carry, put down, grow · **To what, where:** little maiden, queen, snow

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, red berries), 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:pg5615:10:86
# text = You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | You | the little maiden |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **put down** | infinitive | You *not said here* | queen |  |  |  | by the large bush with red berries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | red berries *not said here* |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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