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title: She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’m brought here to nurse the child of the king and queen of the fairies; but there is one chance of saving me. Who acts: cave, I, one chance. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, with its
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 105

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She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’m brought here to nurse the child of the king and queen of the fairies; but there is one chance of saving me.

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**Who acts:** cave, I, one chance · **What happens:** look, say, be, bring, save · **To what, where:** cave, me, whisper, nurse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, I, one chance), 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:pg3454:6:105
# text = She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’m brought here to nurse the child of the king and queen of the fairies; but there is one chance of saving me.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | cave |  |  |  |  | round all terrified | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | cave | me | a whisper |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | participle | I *not said here* | nurse |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | one chance |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund | one chance *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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