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title: Then she took her little oil-lamp, and went into her little room, dr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took her little oil-lamp, and went into her little room, drew off her fur cloak, and washed off the soot from her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth, and it was as if one sunbeam after another were coming out of a black cloud. Who acts: cook, beauty. A sentence of «The Green Fai
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 37

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Then she took her little oil-lamp, and went into her little room, drew off her fur cloak, and washed off the soot from her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth, and it was as if one sunbeam after another were coming out of a black cloud.

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**Who acts:** cook, beauty · **What happens:** take, go, draw off, wash off, shine, come out · **To what, where:** little oil lamp, little room, fur cloak, soot, black cloud

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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 (cook, beauty), 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:pg7277:42:37
# text = Then she took her little oil-lamp, and went into her little room, drew off her fur cloak, and washed off the soot from her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth, and it was as if one sunbeam after another were coming out of a black cloud.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
39	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
48	after	after	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	nmod	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | cook | cook's little oil lamp |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | cook *not said here* |  |  | cook's little room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **draw off** | past | cook *not said here* | cook's fur cloak |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 4 | **wash off** | participle |  | the soot from cook's face and hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soot=Patient |
| 5 | **shine** | past | cook's beauty |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | beauty | a black cloud |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cloud=Result |

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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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