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title: She then got a dress made for her own daughter, like the finest robe… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She then got a dress made for her own daughter, like the finest robe for a queen, and she had a mask prepared and put upon her face, so that she looked quite pretty, and gave her strict orders not to take it off until the king had promised to wed her. Who acts: girl, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 84

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She then got a dress made for her own daughter, like the finest robe for a queen, and she had a mask prepared and put upon her face, so that she looked quite pretty, and gave her strict orders not to take it off until the king had promised to wed her.

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**Who acts:** girl, king · **What happens:** get, make, have, prepare, put, look · **To what, where:** dress, mask, face, strict orders, girl

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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 (girl, king), 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:pg5615:31:84
# text = She then got a dress made for her own daughter, like the finest robe for a queen, and she had a mask prepared and put upon her face, so that she looked quite pretty, and gave her strict orders not to take it off until the king had promised to wed her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
49	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | girl | a dress |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a dress *not said here* |  |  |  | for girl's own daughter; like the finest robe for a queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for daughter=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **have** | past | girl | a mask |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Patient |
| 4 | **prepare** | participle |  | a mask *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | girl's face |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon face=Destination |
| 6 | **look** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **give** | past | girl *not said here* | strict orders | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient order=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **take off** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | mask |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **wed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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