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title: And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughte… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughter: ‘Go and fetch your cousin from the bathroom. Who acts: words. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 63

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And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughter: ‘Go and fetch your cousin from the bathroom.

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** go, call, fetch · **To what, where:** beating, woman, eldest daughter, cousin, bathroom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:pg641:17:63
# text = And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughter: ‘Go and fetch your cousin from the bathroom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | words *= word* |  |  | beating | till the woman |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on beating=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the woman *not said here* | woman's eldest daughter |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive |  | your cousin |  | the bathroom |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme from bathroom=Source |

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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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