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title: She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck, and ask him for some sugar-candy. Who acts: queen, Ogress. 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 claus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 89

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She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck, and ask him for some sugar-candy.

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**Who acts:** queen, Ogress · **What happens:** be, come up, jump, laugh, take, ask · **To what, where:** Ogress

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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 (queen, Ogress), 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:pg503:10:89
# text = She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck, and ask him for some sugar-candy.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | queen |  |  |  | then; year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come up** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **jump** | gerund | Ogress |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | Ogress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  | Ogress |  |  | about the neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  | Ogress |  |  | for some sugar candy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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