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title: Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost die… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it. Who acts: father, princess. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 89

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Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it.

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**Who acts:** father, princess · **What happens:** bear, die, disappear, search, not find, sight · **To what, where:** princess, sight, whole kingdom, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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:pg2435:21:89
# text = Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
33	through	through	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	through	through	ADV	RB	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | could | princess's father | princess |  | father's sight | day | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | past | father |  |  |  |  | of grief; almost *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | past · passive |  | the whole kingdom |  |  |  | through *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location |
| 5 | **not** **find** | could · passive |  | princess |  | any corner of corner |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **sight** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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