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title: She walked straight along the road in front of her, without knowing… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She walked straight along the road in front of her, without knowing very well where she was going or what was to become of her, for she had never been shown how to work, and all she had learnt consisted of a few household rules, and receipts of dishes which her mother had taught her long ago. Who ac
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 10

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She walked straight along the road in front of her, without knowing very well where she was going or what was to become of her, for she had never been shown how to work, and all she had learnt consisted of a few household rules, and receipts of dishes which her mother had taught her long ago.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** walk, know, go, become, not show, work · **To what, where:** road, Princess, all, receipts

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. 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:pg7277:24:10
# text = She walked straight along the road in front of her, without knowing very well where she was going or what was to become of her, for she had never been shown how to work, and all she had learnt consisted of a few household rules, and receipts of dishes which her mother had taught her long ago.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
43	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
51	receipts	receipt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
59	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	61	advmod	_	_
61	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Princess |  |  | the road in front of apple |  | straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Princess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **show** | past · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **learn** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **consist** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of a few household rules | tree rules |
| 9 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | receipts | Princess |  |  | of dishes; ago *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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 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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