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title: Meanwhile, the maiden, in her gorgeous prison, sighed in secret over… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, the maiden, in her gorgeous prison, sighed in secret over her grief, not wishing to arouse the gnome’s suspicions. Who acts: gnome. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 88

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Meanwhile, the maiden, in her gorgeous prison, sighed in secret over her grief, not wishing to arouse the gnome’s suspicions.

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**Who acts:** gnome · **What happens:** sigh, not wish, arouse, suspect · **To what, where:** gorgeous prison, suspicions

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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 (gnome), 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:pg3282:31:88
# text = Meanwhile, the maiden, in her gorgeous prison, sighed in secret over her grief, not wishing to arouse the gnome’s suspicions.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	arouse	arouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | participle |  | princess's gorgeous prison *not said here* |  |  |  | over princess's grief; in secret | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in secret=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **wish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **arouse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the gnome's suspicions |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer |
| 4 | **suspect** |  | the gnome |  |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: 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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