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title: At this dreadful sight the princess, who was broad awake, began to s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this dreadful sight the princess, who was broad awake, began to scream loudly. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55

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At this dreadful sight the princess, who was broad awake, began to scream loudly.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, begin, scream · **To what, where:** dreadful sight

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:18:55
# text = At this dreadful sight the princess, who was broad awake, began to scream loudly.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	scream	scream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  | this dreadful sight and the princess |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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