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title: The stepmother thought to herself, ‘If one can become so beautiful b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The stepmother thought to herself, ‘If one can become so beautiful by going out there, my own daughter shall also be sent, for she can well stand being made a little prettier.’ Who acts: stepmother, one, world. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with it
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59

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The stepmother thought to herself, ‘If one can become so beautiful by going out there, my own daughter shall also be sent, for she can well stand being made a little prettier.’

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**Who acts:** stepmother, one, world · **What happens:** think, become, go out, send, stand, make · **To what, where:** world, own daughter

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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 (stepmother, one, world), 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:pg5615:31:59
# text = The stepmother thought to herself, ‘If one can become so beautiful by going out there, my own daughter shall also be sent, for she can well stand being made a little prettier.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the stepmother |  | world |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | one |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | shall · passive |  | my own daughter |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | can | world |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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