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title: She cried nearly all the way, and when she arrived she cried still m… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She cried nearly all the way, and when she arrived she cried still more, for everything in the castle was dusty and old, and outside there was only a gravelled courtyard, and the king had forbidden her to go beyond the walls without at least two soldiers to take care of her. Who acts: queen, everyth
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 13

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She cried nearly all the way, and when she arrived she cried still more, for everything in the castle was dusty and old, and outside there was only a gravelled courtyard, and the king had forbidden her to go beyond the walls without at least two soldiers to take care of her.

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**Who acts:** queen, everything, king · **What happens:** cry, arrive, be, gravell, forbid, go · **To what, where:** way, more, gravelled courtyard, queen, walls, care

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, everything, king), 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:pg3027:27:13
# text = She cried nearly all the way, and when she arrived she cried still more, for everything in the castle was dusty and old, and outside there was only a gravelled courtyard, and the king had forbidden her to go beyond the walls without at least two soldiers to take care of her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	gravelled	gravell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	50	nmod	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
54	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | queen | all way |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | queen | more |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | dusty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gravell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a gravelled courtyard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **forbid** | past · perfect | the king | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  | the walls |  | without two soldiers | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond wall=Location |
| 10 | **take** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial\_Location |

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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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