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title: You can imagine how frightened she was, as, indeed, anybody would ha… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You can imagine how frightened she was, as, indeed, anybody would have been; but in an instant the man became a ring again, and then turned back to a man, and so it went on for some time until she began to get used to these sudden changes. Who acts: You, anybody, man, ring. A sentence of «The Orange
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 99

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You can imagine how frightened she was, as, indeed, anybody would have been; but in an instant the man became a ring again, and then turned back to a man, and so it went on for some time until she began to get used to these sudden changes.

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**Who acts:** You, anybody, man, ring, princess · **What happens:** imagine, frighten, be, become, turn back, go on · **To what, where:** ring, instant, man

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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 (You, anybody, man, ring), 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:pg3027:39:99
# text = You can imagine how frightened she was, as, indeed, anybody would have been; but in an instant the man became a ring again, and then turned back to a man, and so it went on for some time until she began to get used to these sudden changes.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	xcomp	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	54	nsubj	_	_
53	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | would · perfect | anybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the man | a ring |  |  | again | in a instant *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Result |
| 5 | **turn back** | past | the man *not said here* |  | a man |  | then |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to man=Destination |
| 6 | **go on** | past | ring |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **begin** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **get** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **use** | participle | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to sudden changes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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