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title: When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, ‘Bad… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago--all bad.’ Who acts: old hag, hag. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 27

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When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago--all bad.’

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**Who acts:** old hag, hag · **What happens:** turn, mutter · **To what, where:** whole basket

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old hag, hag), 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:pg641:26:27
# text = When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago--all bad.’
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
23	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · perfect | the old hag |  |  | the whole basket and Bad stuff and bad stuff |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over basket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | hag | the whole basket and Bad stuff and bad stuff *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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