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title: Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell int… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell into the water she was fortunate enough to get the bergman’s cap put on her head, for now she was in danger of her life, and she was at once transformed into a duck. Who acts: we, wretch. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 92

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Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell into the water she was fortunate enough to get the bergman’s cap put on her head, for now she was in danger of her life, and she was at once transformed into a duck.

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**Who acts:** we, wretch · **What happens:** hear, fall, be, get, put, transform · **To what, where:** little, water, cap, head, danger, wretch

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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 (we, wretch), 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:pg5615:31:92
# text = Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell into the water she was fortunate enough to get the bergman’s cap put on her head, for now she was in danger of her life, and she was at once transformed into a duck.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bergman	bergman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	48	obl	_	_
48	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | shall | we | a little |  |  | now | about Maiden eye | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | wretch |  |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | wretch |  |  |  |  | enough, fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | wretch *not said here* | the bergman's cap |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cap=Stimulus |
| 5 | **put** | participle |  | the bergman's cap *not said here* |  | wretch's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on head=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | wretch |  |  | danger |  | of wretch's life | tree rules |
| 7 | **transform** | past · passive |  | wretch |  |  |  | into a duck *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into duck=Result |

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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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