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title: Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water, poked the fire, washed vegetables, plucked fowls, swept up the ashes, and did all the dirty work. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 31

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Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water, poked the fire, washed vegetables, plucked fowls, swept up the ashes, and did all the dirty work.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** send, carry, poke, wash, pluck, sweep up · **To what, where:** sun, kitchen, wood, fire, ashes, dirty work

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg7277:42:31
# text = Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water, poked the fire, washed vegetables, plucked fowls, swept up the ashes, and did all the dirty work.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | sun |  | the kitchen | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | sun | wood and water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **poke** | past | sun *not said here* | the fire and washed vegetables and plucked fowls |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pluck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sweep up** | past | sun *not said here* | the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Trajectory |
| 7 | **do** | past | sun *not said here* | all dirty work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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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