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title: She was actually expected to choose her own dresses, to take care of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was actually expected to choose her own dresses, to take care of her jewels, and to find her own amusements; but rather than take so much trouble she wore the same old frock from morning till night, and never appeared in public if she could possibly avoid it. Who acts: trouble. A sentence of «Th
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 20

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She was actually expected to choose her own dresses, to take care of her jewels, and to find her own amusements; but rather than take so much trouble she wore the same old frock from morning till night, and never appeared in public if she could possibly avoid it.

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**Who acts:** trouble · **What happens:** expect, choose, take, find, wear, not appear · **To what, where:** trouble, own dresses, care, own amusements, much trouble, same old frock

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble), 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:pg7277:36:20
# text = She was actually expected to choose her own dresses, to take care of her jewels, and to find her own amusements; but rather than take so much trouble she wore the same old frock from morning till night, and never appeared in public if she could possibly avoid it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	amusements	amusement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	till	till	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	obl	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past · passive |  | trouble |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | trouble's own dresses |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of trouble's jewels | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of jewel=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | trouble *not said here* | trouble's own amusements |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | much trouble |  |  | night |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 6 | **wear** | past | trouble | the same old frock |  |  | from morning |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frock=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **appear** | past |  |  |  | public |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location |
| 8 | **avoid** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | trouble | frock |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 9 | **amuse** |  | trouble |  |  |  |  |  | nom amusement «feeling 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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