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title: She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on som… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on some horrible old rags belonging to a beggar, all torn and covered with mud. Who acts: Princess, horrible old rags. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 12

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She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on some horrible old rags belonging to a beggar, all torn and covered with mud.

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**Who acts:** Princess, horrible old rags · **What happens:** take off, wear, put, belong, tear, cover · **To what, where:** dress, horrible old rags

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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, horrible old rags), 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:pg7277:24:12
# text = She therefore took off the dress that she was wearing and put on some horrible old rags belonging to a beggar, all torn and covered with mud.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	_
24	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | Princess | the dress |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | past · progressive | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | participle | Princess *not said here* |  |  | some horrible old rags |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on rag=Destination |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | some horrible old rags *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a beggar  all | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=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 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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