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title: Still, she could not help feeling that if the king and queen had lis… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, she could not help feeling that if the king and queen had listened to her advice the girl would by this time be safely in the walls of her new home. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 88

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Still, she could not help feeling that if the king and queen had listened to her advice the girl would by this time be safely in the walls of her new home.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** not help, feel, listen, be · **To what, where:** king, listened walls

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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 (mother), 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:pg3027:23:88
# text = Still, she could not help feeling that if the king and queen had listened to her advice the girl would by this time be safely in the walls of her new home.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
26	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | could | mother |  |  |  | still |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the king and queen |  |  | time | to mother's advice | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | the listened walls |  | of mother's new home; safely *property* | tree rules |

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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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