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title: When she came later on with the picture book, he said that it was on… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she came later on with the picture book, he said that it was only fit for babies, and when his grandmother told them stories, he was always interrupting with, ‘But--’ and then he would get behind her and put on her spectacles, and speak just as she did. Who acts: girl, frost, bird, grandmother.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 88

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When she came later on with the picture book, he said that it was only fit for babies, and when his grandmother told them stories, he was always interrupting with, ‘But--’ and then he would get behind her and put on her spectacles, and speak just as she did.

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**Who acts:** girl, frost, bird, grandmother · **What happens:** come on, say, be, tell, interrupt, get · **To what, where:** stories, roses, spectacles · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, frost, bird, grandmother), 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:pg5615:8:88
# text = When she came later on with the picture book, he said that it was only fit for babies, and when his grandmother told them stories, he was always interrupting with, ‘But--’ and then he would get behind her and put on her spectacles, and speak just as she did.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
44	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
54	just	just	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | with the picture book | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | frost |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | bird |  |  |  |  | for babies; fit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | frost's grandmother | stories | roses *= rose* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
| 5 | **interrupt** | past · progressive | frost |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | would | frost |  |  |  | then | behind girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **put** | past | frost *not said here* |  |  | girl's spectacles |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | frost *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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