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title: ‘Of course not,’ replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Of course not,’ replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were brought in, as they had been before. Who acts: chests, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 94

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‘Of course not,’ replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were brought in, as they had been before.

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**Who acts:** chests, girl · **What happens:** not reply, bring in, be, order · **To what, where:** girl, two chests, orders

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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 (chests, 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:pg5615:36:94
# text = ‘Of course not,’ replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were brought in, as they had been before.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 2 | **bring in** | past · passive |  | two chests |  | girl's orders |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | chests *= chest* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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