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title: The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she p… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary for herself. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 1

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The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary for herself.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** go out, collect, pluck, smell · **To what, where:** large bundle, sprig

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:25:1
# text = The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary for herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	_
24	rosemary	rosemary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **collect** | past |  | a large bundle |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 3 | **pluck** | past | girl |  |  | a sprig of sweet smelling rosemary for girl | then |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at sprig=Source |
| 4 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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