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title: But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dre… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dressed) begged so hard for one of them that at last he said: Who acts: girl, deal. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 111

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But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dressed) begged so hard for one of them that at last he said:

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**Who acts:** girl, deal · **What happens:** be, dress, beg, say · **To what, where:** pretty girl, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, deal), 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:pg641:24:111
# text = But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dressed) begged so hard for one of them that at last he said:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	shabbily	shabbily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | girl | a pretty girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | a pretty girl *not said here* |  |  |  | shabbily *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | for one of visitors; hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for one=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | deal |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |

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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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