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title: She fell as usual into a passion, and beat the child so badly that D… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She fell as usual into a passion, and beat the child so badly that Dotterine went staggering to her own room. Who acts: stepmother, Dotterine. 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 65

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She fell as usual into a passion, and beat the child so badly that Dotterine went staggering to her own room.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, Dotterine · **What happens:** fall, beat, go, stagger · **To what, where:** passion, child

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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 (stepmother, Dotterine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:974`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:12:65
# text = She fell as usual into a passion, and beat the child so badly that Dotterine went staggering to her own room.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	staggering	stagger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | into a passion *result*; as usual | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result |
| 2 | **beat** | past | stepmother *not said here* | the child |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Dotterine |  |  |  |  | to Dotterine's own room | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stagger** | gerund | Dotterine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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