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title: In the evening her stepmother returned and was much amazed to find H… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening her stepmother returned and was much amazed to find Helena sitting quietly with her work all finished before her. Who acts: stepmother, Helena. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 123

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In the evening her stepmother returned and was much amazed to find Helena sitting quietly with her work all finished before her.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, Helena · **What happens:** return, be, find, sit, finish, work · **To what, where:** Helena

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Helena), 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:pg7277:28:123
# text = In the evening her stepmother returned and was much amazed to find Helena sitting quietly with her work all finished before her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
13	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	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	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | HELENA's stepmother |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | HELENA's stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | Helena |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent helena=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | Helena *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with HELENA's work; quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **finish** | past | Helena *not said here* |  |  |  | before HELENA | all *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **work** |  | HELENA |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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