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title: Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself as a goose-girl or shepherdess. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 14

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Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself as a goose-girl or shepherdess.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** have, change, go, offer · **To what, where:** appearance, Princess

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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:pg7277:24:14
# text = Having thus changed her appearance, she went about offering herself as a goose-girl or shepherdess.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past |  | Princess's appearance |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | as a goose girl or shepherdess | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Pivot as girl=Attribute |

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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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