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title: Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cra… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress. Who acts: gir
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 79

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Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress.

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**Who acts:** girl, none, princess · **What happens:** go down, watch, crack, come, invent, carry · **To what, where:** steps, girl, walnut, splendid court dress, dressmaker, arms

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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, none, princess), 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:pg5615:25:79
# text = Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	dressmaker	dressmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the girl | the steps |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent |
| 2 | **watch** | could | none | girl |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** | past | the girl *not said here* | princess's walnut |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walnut=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the girl *not said here* | the splendid court dress |  |  |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme |
| 5 | **invent** | past · perfect · passive |  | any dressmaker |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | dressmaker |  | princess's arms |  | carefully *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location |
| 7 | **knock** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | a court dress |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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