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title: Now the princess saw clearly what they were thinking, and that in fu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the princess saw clearly what they were thinking, and that in future her guards would give her no help, and would perhaps, besides, tell some stories about her to the king, who would shut her up in a lonely tower and prevent her walking in the gardens among her birds and flowers. Who acts: princ
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63

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Now the princess saw clearly what they were thinking, and that in future her guards would give her no help, and would perhaps, besides, tell some stories about her to the king, who would shut her up in a lonely tower and prevent her walking in the gardens among her birds and flowers.

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**Who acts:** princess, men, that · **What happens:** see, think, give, tell, shut up, prevent · **To what, where:** help, princess, stories, king, lonely tower, walking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, men, that), 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:pg3282:18:63
# text = Now the princess saw clearly what they were thinking, and that in future her guards would give her no help, and would perhaps, besides, tell some stories about her to the king, who would shut her up in a lonely tower and prevent her walking in the gardens among her birds and flowers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
54	among	among	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the princess |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | would | that | no help | princess |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient help=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | the princess *not said here* | some stories | the king |  |  | about princess; perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to king=Recipient |
| 5 | **shut up** | would |  | princess |  | a lonely tower |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **prevent** | infinitive |  | princess's walking |  | the gardens |  | among princess's birds and flowers | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer walking=Theme |
| 7 | **walk** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom walking «act intransitive»: poss=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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