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title: Her mother recognised them all, and, pulling up, asked her daughter… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother recognised them all, and, pulling up, asked her daughter if she did not repent and would not like to come home again. Who acts: mother, pulling. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 73

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Her mother recognised them all, and, pulling up, asked her daughter if she did not repent and would not like to come home again.

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**Who acts:** mother, pulling · **What happens:** recognise, pull up, ask, not repent, not like, come · **To what, where:** reins, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, pulling), 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:pg641:42:73
# text = Her mother recognised them all, and, pulling up, asked her daughter if she did not repent and would not like to come home again.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | girl's mother | reins *= rein* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pull up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | pulling |  | girl's daughter |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **repent** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **like** | would | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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