--- title: As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy, Dott… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy, Dotterine took off her own clothes, and put on those of a peasant, and in order to disguise her better her godmother changed her face completely. Who acts: godmother, Dotterine. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 94 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 94 As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy, Dotterine took off her own clothes, and put on those of a peasant, and in order to disguise her better her godmother changed her face completely. **Who acts:** godmother, Dotterine · **What happens:** be, take off, put, disguise, change · **To what, where:** own clothes, those, Dotterine, face 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 (godmother, Dotterine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:12:94 # text = As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy, Dotterine took off her own clothes, and put on those of a peasant, and in order to disguise her better her godmother changed her face completely. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dotterine Dotterine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 Dotterine Dotterine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 31 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 fixed _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 disguise disguise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 better better SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 godmother godmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 completely completely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Dotterine's godmother | | | | | of the enemy; clear *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | past | Dotterine | Dotterine's own clothes | | | | as Dotterine; soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 3 | **put** | participle | Dotterine *not said here* | | | those | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on that=Destination | | 4 | **disguise** | to-infinitive | | | Dotterine | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | | 5 | **change** | past | Dotterine's godmother | Dotterine's face | | | | completely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/95/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)