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title: The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, ‘Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself. Who acts: gi
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 110

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The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, ‘Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself.

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**Who acts:** girl, day, godmother, clothes · **What happens:** be, get, go, dream, bend, say · **To what, where:** ready smart clothes, bed, young ladies, clothes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, day, godmother, clothes), 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:pg641:12:110
# text = The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, ‘Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
55	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | with girl's fingers; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | day | occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | all day *not said here* | fingers's ready smart clothes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | girl |  |  | bed | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **dream** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bend** | past | girl's godmother |  |  |  |  | over girl | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl's godmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **dress** | infinitive |  | your young ladies |  |  |  | for the feast | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
| 9 | **start** | present · perfect | clothes |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **follow** | infinitive | clothes *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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