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title: When she thought of this the queen’s heart sank within her, for he w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she thought of this the queen’s heart sank within her, for he was the light of her eyes and how was she to send him forth to the unknown dangers that beset a pilgrim? Who acts: birthday, heart, unknown dangers. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 14

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When she thought of this the queen’s heart sank within her, for he was the light of her eyes and how was she to send him forth to the unknown dangers that beset a pilgrim?

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**Who acts:** birthday, heart, unknown dangers · **What happens:** think, sink, be, beset · **To what, where:** pilgrim

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, heart, unknown dangers), 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:pg2435:37:14
# text = When she thought of this the queen’s heart sank within her, for he was the light of her eyes and how was she to send him forth to the unknown dangers that beset a pilgrim?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	beset	beset	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | birthday |  |  |  |  | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** | past | the queen's heart |  |  |  |  | within birthday | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | for the light; of birthday's eyes | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | birthday |  |  |  |  | to the unknown dangers; forth, send *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **beset** | present | the unknown dangers | a pilgrim |  |  |  |  | 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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