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title: The old woman took the little orphan home with her and brought her u… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman took the little orphan home with her and brought her up in good, pious, industrious habits. Who acts: old woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 3

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The old woman took the little orphan home with her and brought her up in good, pious, industrious habits.

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** take, bring up · **To what, where:** little orphan home, girl, good pious industrious habits

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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:pg7277:44:3
# text = The old woman took the little orphan home with her and brought her up in good, pious, industrious habits.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	orphan	orphan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the old woman | the little orphan home |  |  |  | with girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **bring up** | past | the old woman *not said here* | girl |  | good pious industrious habits |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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