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title: As she entered the house she asked, as the first one had done: “Well… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she entered the house she asked, as the first one had done: “Well, Sister Ingiborg, is Prince Sigurd at home?” Who acts: floor, first one. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 18

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As she entered the house she asked, as the first one had done: “Well, Sister Ingiborg, is Prince Sigurd at home?”

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**Who acts:** floor, first one · **What happens:** enter, ask, do, be · **To what, where:** house, Sister Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, first one), 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:pg2435:33:18
# text = As she entered the house she asked, as the first one had done: “Well, Sister Ingiborg, is Prince Sigurd at home?”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
20	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | floor | the house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | floor | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | the first one |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Sister Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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