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title: This so frightened the pretended wife, who knew that if the physicia… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This so frightened the pretended wife, who knew that if the physicians once came near her the trick would at once be discovered, that she forgot her mother's counsel not to speak, and forgot even the spell that had been laid upon her, and catching hold of the prince's tunic, she cried in tones of en
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 110

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This so frightened the pretended wife, who knew that if the physicians once came near her the trick would at once be discovered, that she forgot her mother's counsel not to speak, and forgot even the spell that had been laid upon her, and catching hold of the prince's tunic, she cried in tones of entreaty: 'Dirty creatures!'

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**Who acts:** This, pretended wife, physicians, princess · **What happens:** frighten, pretend, know, come, discover, forget · **To what, where:** pretended wife, trick, counsel, spell, hold, Dirty creatures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, pretended wife, physicians, 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:pg3027:12:110
# text = This so frightened the pretended wife, who knew that if the physicians once came near her the trick would at once be discovered, that she forgot her mother's counsel not to speak, and forgot even the spell that had been laid upon her, and catching hold of the prince's tunic, she cried in tones of entreaty: 'Dirty creatures!'
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
51	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	's	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	67	punct	_	_
65	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	67	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past | This | the pretended wife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | the pretended wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the physicians |  |  |  |  | near princess; once *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
| 5 | **discover** | would · passive |  | the trick |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **forget** | past | princess | princess's mother's counsel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **forget** | past | This *not said here* | the spell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **lay** | past · perfect · passive |  | the spell |  |  |  | upon princess | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon she=Destination |
| 10 | **catch** | gerund | This *not said here* | hold of the prince's tunic |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 11 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | princess | Dirty creatures |  | tones of entreaty |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location |
| 12 | **hold** |  |  | the prince's tunic |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 13 | **intonate** |  |  | entreaty |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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