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title: In her own mind she was wondering if by any means she might escape f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In her own mind she was wondering if by any means she might escape from her captivity, and at last she hit upon a plan. Who acts: princess. 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 89

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In her own mind she was wondering if by any means she might escape from her captivity, and at last she hit upon a plan.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** wonder, mean, escape, hit, mind · **To what, where:** own mind, captivity · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:31:89
# text = In her own mind she was wondering if by any means she might escape from her captivity, and at last she hit upon a plan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | princess |  |  | princess's own mind |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | present |  |  |  |  |  | by any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **escape** | might | princess |  |  | princess's captivity |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from captivity=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hit** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | upon a plan; at last | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «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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