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title: Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turn… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turned away, and marched off to her own apartments, without deigning to answer him. Who acts: disappointed princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78

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Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turned away, and marched off to her own apartments, without deigning to answer him.

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**Who acts:** disappointed princess · **What happens:** finish, turn away, march off, deign, answer · **To what, where:** gnome, own apartments

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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 (disappointed 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:pg3282:31:78
# text = Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turned away, and marched off to her own apartments, without deigning to answer him.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	deigning	deign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the gnome |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn away** | past | the disappointed princess |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **march off** | past | the disappointed princess *not said here* |  |  | princess's own apartments |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination |
| 4 | **deign** | gerund | the disappointed princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the disappointed princess *not said here* |  | gnome |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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