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title: “Ah, traitress!” he exclaimed, and ordering the horses to be turned… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, traitress!” he exclaimed, and ordering the horses to be turned round, he drove the elder daughter, quivering with rage, to the old woman who had sought to deceive him. Who acts: prince, old woman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its d
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 2

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“Ah, traitress!” he exclaimed, and ordering the horses to be turned round, he drove the elder daughter, quivering with rage, to the old woman who had sought to deceive him.

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**Who acts:** prince, old woman · **What happens:** exclaim, order, turn round, drive, quiver, seek · **To what, where:** traitress, horses, elder daughter, prince

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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 (prince, old woman), 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:pg2435:37:2
# text = “Ah, traitress!” he exclaimed, and ordering the horses to be turned round, he drove the elder daughter, quivering with rage, to the old woman who had sought to deceive him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	traitress	traitress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | prince | traitress |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **order** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  | the horses |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 3 | **turn round** | to-infinitive · passive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» |
| 4 | **drive** | past | prince | the elder daughter |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 5 | **quiver** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rage; to the old woman | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **seek** | past · perfect | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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