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title: Then she was taken out, and had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she was taken out, and had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours, but she could make no impression. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 28

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Then she was taken out, and had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours, but she could make no impression.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** take out, have, scrape, make · **To what, where:** daughter, impression

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg640:8:28
# text = Then she was taken out, and had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours, but she could make no impression.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | past · passive |  | daughter |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scrape** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for four and twenty hours | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | could | daughter | no impression |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Product |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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