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title: The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble at, grew very jealous of her husband’s affection for the bird, and would gladly have done it some harm had she dared. Who acts: woman, harm. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its d
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 52

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The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble at, grew very jealous of her husband’s affection for the bird, and would gladly have done it some harm had she dared.

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**Who acts:** woman, harm · **What happens:** be, grumble, grow, do, have, dare · **To what, where:** look out, bird

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, harm), 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:pg5615:36:52
# text = The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble at, grew very jealous of her husband’s affection for the bird, and would gladly have done it some harm had she dared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	grumble	grumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the woman |  |  | the look out |  | for something; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | would · perfect | the woman *not said here* | bird |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **have** | past | some harm |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dare** | past | harm |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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