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title: He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen’s throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen’s room with his dagger in his hand. Who acts: kid. A sentence of «
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 100

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He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen’s throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen’s room with his dagger in his hand.

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**Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** take, save, cut, go up, do, put · **To what, where:** resolution, own life, throat, chamber, kid, great fury

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kid), 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:pg503:10:100
# text = He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen’s throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen’s room with his dagger in his hand.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
47	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’s	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | kid | a resolution |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | might | kid | kid's own life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive | kid *not said here* | the Queen's throat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product |
| 4 | **go up** | gerund | kid *not said here* |  |  | queen's chamber |  | with intent | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | kid *not said here* | throat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **put** | past | kid | kid |  | great fury |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal |
| 7 | **come** | past | kid *not said here* |  |  | the young Queen's room |  | with kid's dagger in kid's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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