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title: And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold. Who acts: servant, beautiful dress. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 89

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And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold.

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**Who acts:** servant, beautiful dress · **What happens:** wash up, bite, be, make · **To what, where:** third nut, beautiful dress

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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 (servant, beautiful dress), 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:pg640:8:89
# text = And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash up** | past · perfect | servant |  |  |  | night |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bite** | past | servant | the third nut |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | a beautiful dress |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive | a beautiful dress *not said here* | a beautiful dress |  |  |  | of pure gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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