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title: And the old woman hobbled off with great alacrity, and fetched a lit… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the old woman hobbled off with great alacrity, and fetched a little bundle containing a wretched dress, such as the Princess had never even seen before, and nimbly skipped round, helping her to put it on instead of her own rich robe, with many exclamations of: Who acts: old woman, little bundle,
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 128

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And the old woman hobbled off with great alacrity, and fetched a little bundle containing a wretched dress, such as the Princess had never even seen before, and nimbly skipped round, helping her to put it on instead of her own rich robe, with many exclamations of:

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**Who acts:** old woman, little bundle, Princess · **What happens:** hobble off, fetch, contain, not see, skip, help · **To what, where:** little bundle, wretched dress, Princess, dress

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, little bundle, 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:pg7277:12:128
# text = And the old woman hobbled off with great alacrity, and fetched a little bundle containing a wretched dress, such as the Princess had never even seen before, and nimbly skipped round, helping her to put it on instead of her own rich robe, with many exclamations of:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hobbled	hobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	alacrity	alacrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	skipped	skip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
34	round	round	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	47	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hobble off** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | with great alacrity | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | past | the old woman *not said here* | a little bundle |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | a little bundle *not said here* | a wretched dress |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dress=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect |  | a wretched dress *not said here* |  |  |  | such the Princess; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **skip** | participle | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with many exclamations; nimbly, round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **put on** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | dress |  |  |  | instead Princess's own rich robe | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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