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title: The princess meanwhile was craftily pursuing her plan of escape. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess meanwhile was craftily pursuing her plan of escape. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 24

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The princess meanwhile was craftily pursuing her plan of escape.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, pursue, plan · **To what, where:** plan, escape

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. 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:pg3282:32:24
# text = The princess meanwhile was craftily pursuing her plan of escape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	craftily	craftily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | craftily, meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pursue** | gerund |  | princess's plan of escape |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 3 | **plan** |  | princess | escape |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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