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title: Now up to this time the princess's history has been like the history… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now up to this time the princess's history has been like the history of many a princess that you have read about; but, when the period of her imprisonment was nearly over, her fortunes took another turn. Who acts: period, fortunes, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 77

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Now up to this time the princess's history has been like the history of many a princess that you have read about; but, when the period of her imprisonment was nearly over, her fortunes took another turn.

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**Who acts:** period, fortunes, princess · **What happens:** be, read, take, imprison · **To what, where:** many princess, turn

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, fortunes, 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:pg3027:22:77
# text = Now up to this time the princess's history has been like the history of many a princess that you have read about; but, when the period of her imprisonment was nearly over, her fortunes took another turn.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | now; time | like the history; of a many princess | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | present · perfect · passive |  | a many princess |  |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the period of princess's imprisonment |  |  |  |  | nearly, over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | princess's fortunes | another turn |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 5 | **imprison** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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