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title: She got this, and then she requested them to put a pot full of stron… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She got this, and then she requested them to put a pot full of strong lye on the fire and lay down three new scrubbing brushes. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 18

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She got this, and then she requested them to put a pot full of strong lye on the fire and lay down three new scrubbing brushes.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** get, request, put, lay down, scrub · **To what, where:** this, nuts, pot, fire, three new scrubbing brushes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg5615:33:18
# text = She got this, and then she requested them to put a pot full of strong lye on the fire and lay down three new scrubbing brushes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lye	lye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | girl | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **request** | past | girl | nuts *= nut* |  |  | then |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a pot |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 4 | **lay down** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | three new scrubbing brushes |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Result |
| 5 | **scrub** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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