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title: When she was quite safe, she put on her rags again, and smeared over… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she was quite safe, she put on her rags again, and smeared over her face and hands. Who acts: girl. 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 22

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When she was quite safe, she put on her rags again, and smeared over her face and hands.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** be, put on, smear · **To what, where:** rags, face

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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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:1934`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:24:22
# text = When she was quite safe, she put on her rags again, and smeared over her face and hands.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	smeared	smear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put on** | past | girl | girl's rags |  |  | again |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rag=Goal |
| 3 | **smear** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  | girl's face and hands |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over face=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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