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title: The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses, and so she came to her end.:But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye, and immediately made her his queen, while her brother became his prime minister. Who acts: six wild horses, sister, ki
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 26

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The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses, and so she came to her end.:But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye, and immediately made her his queen, while her brother became his prime minister.

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**Who acts:** six wild horses, sister, king, brother · **What happens:** put, drag off, come, be, make, become · **To what, where:** wicked sister, barrel, spikes, end, queen, sister

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six wild horses, sister, king, brother), 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:pg5615:32:26
# text = The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses, and so she came to her end.:But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye, and immediately made her his queen, while her brother became his prime minister.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.:	.:	SYM	NFP	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
37	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | the wicked sister |  | a barrel |  | with spikes round barrel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **drag off** | past · passive | six wild horses | spikes round barrel |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | sister |  |  |  | to sister's end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | with Maiden eye; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past |  | eye's queen | sister |  |  | immediately *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary queen=Product |
| 6 | **become** | past | sister's brother | eye's prime minister |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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