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title: Then the girl went to the king’s room looking seven times lovelier t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the girl went to the king’s room looking seven times lovelier than ever. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 84

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Then the girl went to the king’s room looking seven times lovelier than ever.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** go, look · **To what, where:** room

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (girl), 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:pg2435:1:84
# text = Then the girl went to the king’s room looking seven times lovelier than ever.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the girl |  |  | the king's room | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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