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title: That evening the poor princess, still wearing her ring, was put into… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening the poor princess, still wearing her ring, was put into the summer-house with enough food to last for three days, and the door was bricked up. Who acts: poor princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 108

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That evening the poor princess, still wearing her ring, was put into the summer-house with enough food to last for three days, and the door was bricked up.

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**Who acts:** poor princess · **What happens:** wear, put, last, brick up · **To what, where:** ring, summer house, door

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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:pg3027:39:108
# text = That evening the poor princess, still wearing her ring, was put into the summer-house with enough food to last for three days, and the door was bricked up.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	bricked	brick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | the poor princess *not said here* | princess's ring |  |  | still |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive |  |  |  | the summer house with enough food | evening |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **last** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brick up** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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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