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title: The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all the keys, but pointed her out one that she would do well never to use, for if she did the whole palace would fall to the ground, and the grass would grow over it, and the damsel herself would be remembered no more. Who acts: old dam
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 9

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The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all the keys, but pointed her out one that she would do well never to use, for if she did the whole palace would fall to the ground, and the grass would grow over it, and the damsel herself would be remembered no more.

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**Who acts:** old dame, one, whole palace, grass · **What happens:** look, hand, point out, not use, fall, grow · **To what, where:** keys, maiden, palace, damsel

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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 (old dame, one, whole palace, grass), 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:pg5615:25:9
# text = The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all the keys, but pointed her out one that she would do well never to use, for if she did the whole palace would fall to the ground, and the grass would grow over it, and the damsel herself would be remembered no more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
60	no	no	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the old dame |  |  |  | after the house |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hand** | past | the old dame | all keys | maiden |  | day |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination key=Theme |
| 3 | **point out** | past | the old dame *not said here* | maiden |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **use** | to-infinitive · do-support | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | would · past · do-support | the whole palace |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | would | the grass |  |  | palace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
| 7 | **remember** | would · passive |  | the damsel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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