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title: Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often, and drov… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often, and drove home her sheep in the evening. Who acts: Maiden. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 54

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Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often, and drove home her sheep in the evening.

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**Who acts:** Maiden · **What happens:** thank, drive · **To what, where:** little bergman, sheep

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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), 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:pg5615:31:54
# text = Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often, and drove home her sheep in the evening.
1	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bergman	bergman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Maiden | the little bergman |  |  | ever | often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bergman=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past | Maiden *not said here* | world's sheep |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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