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title: Left alone, the princess began to think of many things, but chiefly… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Left alone, the princess began to think of many things, but chiefly as to whether she would persuade her husband to give her the stone or not. Who acts: princess, husband. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

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Left alone, the princess began to think of many things, but chiefly as to whether she would persuade her husband to give her the stone or not.

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**Who acts:** princess, husband · **What happens:** leave, begin, think, persuade, give · **To what, where:** husband, stone, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, husband), 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:pg3027:14:61
# text = Left alone, the princess began to think of many things, but chiefly as to whether she would persuade her husband to give her the stone or not.
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of many things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **persuade** | would | princess | princess's husband |  |  |  | chiefly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | princess's husband *not said here* | the stone | princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient stone=Theme |

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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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