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title: But her stepmother was anything but pleased, and went through the wh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But her stepmother was anything but pleased, and went through the whole castle from top to bottom, to see if she couldn’t find some fault for which she could punish Helena. Who acts: stepmother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 7

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But her stepmother was anything but pleased, and went through the whole castle from top to bottom, to see if she couldn’t find some fault for which she could punish Helena.

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**Who acts:** stepmother · **What happens:** be, go, see, not find, punish · **To what, where:** anything, whole castle, fault, Helena

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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:pg7277:29:7
# text = But her stepmother was anything but pleased, and went through the whole castle from top to bottom, to see if she couldn’t find some fault for which she could punish Helena.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Helena's stepmother | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Helena's stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the whole castle from top to bottom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through castle=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | stepmother | some fault |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 6 | **punish** | could | stepmother | Helena |  |  |  | for some fault | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent helena=Patient for which=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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