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title: Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear. Who acts: little old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 10

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Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear.

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**Who acts:** little old woman, woman · **What happens:** not put, rise · **To what, where:** hard cushion, chair

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old 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:pg7277:33:10
# text = Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | past | the little old woman | the hard cushion |  |  | now | straight *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cushion=Goal |
| 2 | **rise** | past | woman |  |  | the chair of the Great Huge Bear |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chair=Initial\_Location |

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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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