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title: She lost her heart to the good looks of the prince, and sent her nur… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She lost her heart to the good looks of the prince, and sent her nurse to fetch him so that she might learn where he came from and how he had got into her private garden where even lions and wolves did not venture. Who acts: girl, prince, lions. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 8

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She lost her heart to the good looks of the prince, and sent her nurse to fetch him so that she might learn where he came from and how he had got into her private garden where even lions and wolves did not venture.

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**Who acts:** girl, prince, lions · **What happens:** lose, send, fetch, learn, come, get · **To what, where:** heart, nurse, prince, private garden

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, prince, lions), 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:pg3282:3:8
# text = She lost her heart to the good looks of the prince, and sent her nurse to fetch him so that she might learn where he came from and how he had got into her private garden where even lions and wolves did not venture.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | girl | girl's heart |  |  |  | to the good looks of the prince | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 2 | **send** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's nurse |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | might | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past · perfect | prince |  |  | girl's private garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **venture** | past · do-support | lions and wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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