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title: So she crept softly to her room, and took a piece of paper and wrote… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she crept softly to her room, and took a piece of paper and wrote upon it: “Marry the messenger who brings this letter to the princess openly at once. Who acts: shame, messenger. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its depen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 162

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So she crept softly to her room, and took a piece of paper and wrote upon it: “Marry the messenger who brings this letter to the princess openly at once.

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**Who acts:** shame, messenger · **What happens:** creep, take, write, marry, bring · **To what, where:** room, piece, messenger, letter, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, messenger), 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:pg3282:33:162
# text = So she crept softly to her room, and took a piece of paper and wrote upon it: “Marry the messenger who brings this letter to the princess openly at once.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | shame |  |  | shame's room |  | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | a piece of paper |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon piece | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the messenger |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | the messenger | this letter | the princess |  |  | openly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to princess=Destination |

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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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