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title: Then she told about a wise old woman in that country, who had helped… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she told about a wise old woman in that country, who had helped many in troubles of the same kind, and could no doubt help the queen as well, if she would send for her. Who acts: majesty, country, doubt. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its d
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 76

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Then she told about a wise old woman in that country, who had helped many in troubles of the same kind, and could no doubt help the queen as well, if she would send for her.

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**Who acts:** majesty, country, doubt · **What happens:** tell, help, send, trouble · **To what, where:** many, troubles, queen, same kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, country, doubt), 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:pg5615:6:76
# text = Then she told about a wise old woman in that country, who had helped many in troubles of the same kind, and could no doubt help the queen as well, if she would send for her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	28	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | majesty |  |  |  | then | about a wise old woman in that country | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | past · perfect | that country | many |  | troubles of the same kind |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **help** | could | no doubt |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **send** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | majesty |  |  |  |  | for queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **trouble** |  |  | the same kind |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=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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