---
title: Desiree sank down fainting at the news, but soon came to herself aga… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Desiree sank down fainting at the news, but soon came to herself again, and set about inventing a plan which would enable her to go to the prince without risking the doom pronounced over her by the wicked fairy. Who acts: Desiree, plan, queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Op
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 12

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Desiree sank down fainting at the news, but soon came to herself again, and set about inventing a plan which would enable her to go to the prince without risking the doom pronounced over her by the wicked fairy.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Desiree, plan, queen · **What happens:** sink down, faint, come, set, invent, enable · **To what, where:** queen, doom

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiree, plan, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:23:12
# text = Desiree sank down fainting at the news, but soon came to herself again, and set about inventing a plan which would enable her to go to the prince without risking the doom pronounced over her by the wicked fairy.
1	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	risking	risk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink down** | past | Desiree |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **faint** | gerund | Desiree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the news | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at news=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | Desiree *not said here* |  | queen |  | again | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | Desiree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **invent** | gerund | Desiree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **enable** | would | a plan | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **risk** | gerund | queen *not said here* | the doom |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Pivot |
| 9 | **pronounce** | past | a plan |  |  |  |  | over queen; by the wicked fairy | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/13/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)