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title: Then she drew her golden comb gently through Elsa’s hair, and bade h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she drew her golden comb gently through Elsa’s hair, and bade her go to bed; but little sleep had the poor girl! Who acts: part, bade, little sleep. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 153

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Then she drew her golden comb gently through Elsa’s hair, and bade her go to bed; but little sleep had the poor girl!

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**Who acts:** part, bade, little sleep · **What happens:** draw, go, have · **To what, where:** golden comb, hair, bed, poor girl

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, bade, little sleep), 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:pg641:2:153
# text = Then she drew her golden comb gently through Elsa’s hair, and bade her go to bed; but little sleep had the poor girl!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	punct	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | part | part's golden comb |  | Elsa's hair | then | gently *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | bade |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | little sleep | the poor girl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |

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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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