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title: Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it woul… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work, so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them. Who acts: Maiden eye, course, wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40

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Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work, so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them.

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**Who acts:** Maiden eye, course, wife · **What happens:** have, watch, not do, let, go, enjoy · **To what, where:** sheep, wife, heather, moors

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden eye, course, 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:pg5615:31:40
# text = Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work, so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them.
1	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advcl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Maiden eye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Maiden eye *not said here* | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** | would | course |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | course *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **enjoy** | infinitive | course *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **pull** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | heather |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heather=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | wife |  |  | the moors with eyes |  | out *property* | 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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