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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 24

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After this she informed the genius that she would start early next day and take Sunlight with her.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** inform, start, take · **To what, where:** genius, Sunlight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg641:39:24
# text = After this she informed the genius that she would start early next day and take Sunlight with her.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | princess | the genius |  |  | after this |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | would | princess |  |  |  | day | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | Sunlight |  |  |  | with princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme |

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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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