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title: She quite expected to rid herself of the tailor in this way, for the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She quite expected to rid herself of the tailor in this way, for the bear had never left anyone alive who had once come within reach of his claws. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 20

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She quite expected to rid herself of the tailor in this way, for the bear had never left anyone alive who had once come within reach of his claws.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** expect, rid, not leave, come · **To what, where:** Princess, way, bear

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg7277:51:20
# text = She quite expected to rid herself of the tailor in this way, for the bear had never left anyone alive who had once come within reach of his claws.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rid	rid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **rid** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Princess |  | this way |  | of the tailor | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Source of tailor=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme anyone=Attribute |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | within reach of needle's claws; once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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