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title: When she had been chased away from her last house by Destiny’s wicke… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 105

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When she had been chased away from her last house by Destiny’s wicked pranks she had taken service with another lady, who told her that it would be part of her daily work to walk to a mountain that overshadowed the town, and, climbing up to the top, she was to lay on the ground some loaves of freshly baked bread, and cry with a loud voice, ‘O Destiny, my mistress,’ three times.

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**Who acts:** wicked pranks, Destiny, lady, house, mountain · **What happens:** chase away, take, tell, be, walk, overshadow · **To what, where:** Destiny, last house, service, part, town, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked pranks, Destiny, lady, house), 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:pg5615:18:105
# text = When she had been chased away from her last house by Destiny’s wicked pranks she had taken service with another lady, who told her that it would be part of her daily work to walk to a mountain that overshadowed the town, and, climbing up to the top, she was to lay on the ground some loaves of freshly baked bread, and cry with a loud voice, ‘O Destiny, my mistress,’ three times.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	advcl	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	det	_	_
62	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	freshly	freshly	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	66	amod	_	_
66	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	conj	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
71	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
72	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
75	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	77	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	77	case	_	_
77	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
79	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	80	nmod:poss	_	_
80	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
83	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	84	nummod	_	_
84	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | past · perfect · passive | Destiny's wicked pranks | Destiny |  | Destiny's last house | time | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from house=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | Destiny | service |  |  |  | with another lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | another lady |  | Destiny |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | would | house | part |  |  |  | of Destiny's daily work | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to a mountain *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result |
| 6 | **overshadow** | past | a mountain | the town |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
| 7 | **climb up** | gerund | Destiny *not said here* |  |  | the top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
| 8 | **is** | past | Destiny |  |  | the ground and some loaves of baked bread |  | lay *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | freshly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | Destiny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a loud voice | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
| 11 | **work** |  | Destiny |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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