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title: The brave princess stooped for a second to pluck the lance out of th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brave princess stooped for a second to pluck the lance out of the wound, and then ran on until she found herself safe at home again. Who acts: brave princess, princess. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48

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The brave princess stooped for a second to pluck the lance out of the wound, and then ran on until she found herself safe at home again.

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**Who acts:** brave princess, princess · **What happens:** stoop, pluck, run on, find · **To what, where:** brave princess, lance, wound, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave princess, 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:pg3454:4:48
# text = The brave princess stooped for a second to pluck the lance out of the wound, and then ran on until she found herself safe at home again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | participle |  | the brave princess *not said here* |  |  | second |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pluck** | to-infinitive |  | the lance |  | the wound |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lance=Theme out wound=Source |
| 3 | **run on** | past | the brave princess |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | princess | princess |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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