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title: The princess was very much vexed with her ladies-in-waiting for frig… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess was very much vexed with her ladies-in-waiting for frightening away her old playfellow, and told the queen who came to her room every evening to bid her good-night. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 11

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The princess was very much vexed with her ladies-in-waiting for frightening away her old playfellow, and told the queen who came to her room every evening to bid her good-night.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** vex, wait away, tell, come, bid · **To what, where:** princess, old playfellow, queen, room · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg3282:28:11
# text = The princess was very much vexed with her ladies-in-waiting for frightening away her old playfellow, and told the queen who came to her room every evening to bid her good-night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | past · passive |  | the princess |  |  |  | with princess's ladies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wait away** | gerund |  | princess's old playfellow |  |  |  | for frightening; away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | past | the queen |  |  | princess's room | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **bid** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |

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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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