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title: The grocer’s wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings o… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The grocer’s wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings out of her ears and put them in her pocket in order to save something. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 88

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The grocer’s wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings out of her ears and put them in her pocket in order to save something.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, take, put, save · **To what, where:** gold earrings, ears, earrings, pocket, something

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg5615:2:88
# text = The grocer’s wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings out of her ears and put them in her pocket in order to save something.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	earrings	earring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	fixed	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the grocer's wife |  |  |  |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | wife | wife's gold earrings |  | wife's ears |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent earring=Theme out ear=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | earrings *= earring* |  | wife's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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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