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title: But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do. Who acts: wicked woman, woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 132

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But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do.

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**Who acts:** wicked woman, woman · **What happens:** be, think, set, do, frustrate, design · **To what, where:** frustration, girl, own evil designs

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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 (wicked woman, woman), 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:pg7277:28:132
# text = But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frustration	frustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
21	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wicked woman |  |  | the frustration of woman's own evil designs |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the wicked woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | could | woman | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient girl=Result |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **frustrate** |  |  | woman's own evil designs |  |  |  |  | nom frustration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **design** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom design «act transitive»: 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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