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title: ‘What old rubbish,’ said the child to herself, and, turning, threw t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What old rubbish,’ said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window. Who acts: old rubbish. 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 69

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‘What old rubbish,’ said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window.

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**Who acts:** old rubbish · **What happens:** rubbish, say, turn, throw · **To what, where:** child, Dotterine, wing, open window · **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 (old rubbish), 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:pg641:12:69
# text = ‘What old rubbish,’ said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rubbish** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old rubbish | the child | Dotterine |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | the wing |  | the open window |  |  | tree rules |

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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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