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title: The chief lady of honor, being as sharp set as other folks, grew ver… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief lady of honor, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud that supper was served up. Who acts: chief lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 69

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The chief lady of honor, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud that supper was served up.

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**Who acts:** chief lady · **What happens:** be, grow, tell, serve up · **To what, where:** Princess, supper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (chief lady), 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:pg503:10:69
# text = The chief lady of honor, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud that supper was served up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the chief lady of honor and sharp set *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as sharp set; as other folks | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the chief lady of honor and sharp set |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the chief lady of honor and sharp set *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **serve up** | past · passive |  | supper |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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