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title: She got the hare, but she had to give me a kiss for it; AND THAT GIR… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She got the hare, but she had to give me a kiss for it; AND THAT GIRL WAS THE PRINCESS. Who acts: girl. 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 144

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She got the hare, but she had to give me a kiss for it; AND THAT GIRL WAS THE PRINCESS.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** get, have, give, be · **To what, where:** hare, kiss, me, PRINCESS

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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), 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:pg641:24:144
# text = She got the hare, but she had to give me a kiss for it; AND THAT GIRL WAS THE PRINCESS.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	THAT	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	GIRL	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	WAS	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | girl | the hare |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a kiss | me |  |  | for kiss | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme for it=Asset |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that GIRL | the PRINCESS |  |  |  |  | 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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