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title: The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the loc… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat. Who acts: maiden, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 81

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The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat.

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**Who acts:** maiden, girl · **What happens:** tell, find, spin, shine, fasten on · **To what, where:** girl, maiden, lock, stuff · **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 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, girl), 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:pg5615:21:81
# text = The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden |  | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | girl | maiden |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **spin** | past | the maiden *not said here* | the lock |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lock=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | the maiden *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |
| 5 | **fasten on** | past | the maiden *not said here* | lock |  |  | to the end of the coat |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to end=Co-Patient |

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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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