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title: When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her and dragged her out of the sight of her terrified maidens, she herself had not had time to be frightened. Who acts: water nymphs, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 29

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When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her and dragged her out of the sight of her terrified maidens, she herself had not had time to be frightened.

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**Who acts:** water nymphs, princess · **What happens:** hide, catch, drag, not have, frighten, sight · **To what, where:** readiness, princess, sight, terrified maidens

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water nymphs, 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:pg3282:31:29
# text = When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her and dragged her out of the sight of her terrified maidens, she herself had not had time to be frightened.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	readiness	readiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	conj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | the water nymphs |  |  | readiness |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in readiness=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past · perfect |  | princess |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **drag** | past |  | princess |  | the sight of princess's terrified maidens |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out sight=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | princess |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **frighten** | to-infinitive · passive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | princess's terrified maidens |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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