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title: Anyhow at the end of three days she could do everything as well as i… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyhow at the end of three days she could do everything as well as if she had cleaned pots and swept rooms all her life. Who acts: work. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 100

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Anyhow at the end of three days she could do everything as well as if she had cleaned pots and swept rooms all her life.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** do, clean, sweep · **To what, where:** everything, end, pots, rooms

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work), 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:pg641:12:100
# text = Anyhow at the end of three days she could do everything as well as if she had cleaned pots and swept rooms all her life.
1	Anyhow	anyhow	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | work | everything |  |  | at the end of three days | anyhow *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **clean** | past · perfect | work | pots |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | work *not said here* | rooms |  |  |  | work's life *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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