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title: The queen rewarded the old woman richly, and next morning, before th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen rewarded the old woman richly, and next morning, before the sun rose, she was down in the garden, found at once the little bush with the three buds, plucked the middle one and ate it. Who acts: queen, sun. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, wit
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 83

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The queen rewarded the old woman richly, and next morning, before the sun rose, she was down in the garden, found at once the little bush with the three buds, plucked the middle one and ate it.

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**Who acts:** queen, sun · **What happens:** reward, rise, be, find, pluck, eat · **To what, where:** old woman, garden, little bush, middle one, sun

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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 (queen, sun), 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:pg5615:6:83
# text = The queen rewarded the old woman richly, and next morning, before the sun rose, she was down in the garden, found at once the little bush with the three buds, plucked the middle one and ate it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reward** | past | the queen |  | the old woman |  | morning | richly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | queen |  |  | the garden |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | participle |  | the garden *not said here* |  | the little bush with the three buds |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pluck** | past |  | the middle one |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | past |  | sun |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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