--- title: O my dear princess!' cried she; and again the white doe rubbed her h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: O my dear princess!' cried she; and again the white doe rubbed her head against her, for thought the spiteful fairy had taken away her power of speech, she had not deprived her of her reason! Who acts: dear princess, white doe. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/95/) [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/) / 95 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 95 O my dear princess!' cried she; and again the white doe rubbed her head against her, for thought the spiteful fairy had taken away her power of speech, she had not deprived her of her reason! **Who acts:** dear princess, white doe · **What happens:** cry, rub, think, take away, not deprive · **To what, where:** thought, head, spiteful fairy, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dear princess, white doe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:23:95 # text = O my dear princess!' cried she; and again the white doe rubbed her head against her, for thought the spiteful fairy had taken away her power of speech, she had not deprived her of her reason! 1 O o INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 doe doe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 spiteful spiteful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 ccomp _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 deprived deprive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my dear princess | thought | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 2 | **rub** | past | the white doe | princess's head | | | | against princess | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme against she=Destination | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the white doe *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **take away** | past · perfect · passive | | the spiteful fairy | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **deprive** | past · perfect · passive | | princess | | | | of princess's reason | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/96/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)