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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 12

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Unfortunately, as they entered, the princess was so enraged at the sight of them that she forgot all about the doves, and shrieked out: 'Dirty creatures! dirty creatures!' which so offended the physicians that they left the room at once, and nothing that the prince could say would prevail on them to remain.

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**Who acts:** leeches, princess, physicians, prince, Dirty creatures · **What happens:** enter, enrage, forget, shriek out, offend, leave · **To what, where:** princess, sight, doves, dirty creatures, room, leeches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leeches, princess, physicians, prince), 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:pg3027:13:12
# text = Unfortunately, as they entered, the princess was so enraged at the sight of them that she forgot all about the doves, and shrieked out: 'Dirty creatures! dirty creatures!' which so offended the physicians that they left the room at once, and nothing that the prince could say would prevail on them to remain.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
33	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	offended	offend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	58	nsubj	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | leeches *= leech* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **enrage** | past · passive |  | the princess |  | the sight of leeches |  | unfortunately *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **forget** | past | princess | the doves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shriek out** | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **offend** | past |  | dirty creatures |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer physician=Result |
| 6 | **leave** | past | the physicians | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme at once=Location |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **prevail** | would | Dirty creatures |  |  |  |  | on leeches *= leech* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 9 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Dirty creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **sight** |  |  | leeches *= leech* |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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