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title: Then she called her daughter and told her that very soon she would b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called her daughter and told her that very soon she would be alone in the world; that she must take care of herself, as there would be no one to take care of her. Who acts: girl, that. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, with its dependen
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 12

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Then she called her daughter and told her that very soon she would be alone in the world; that she must take care of herself, as there would be no one to take care of her.

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**Who acts:** girl, that · **What happens:** call, tell, be, take · **To what, where:** daughter, girl, world, care, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that), 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:pg641:31:12
# text = Then she called her daughter and told her that very soon she would be alone in the world; that she must take care of herself, as there would be no one to take care of her.
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	called	call	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	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
36	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | girl |  | girl's daughter |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | would | girl |  |  | the world |  | alone, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | must | that | care |  |  |  | of girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of herself=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial\_Location |

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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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