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title: The Princess, sitting in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, sent a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess, sitting in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, sent a slave to find out what the noise was about, who came back laughing, so that the Princess scolded her. Who acts: Princess, noise. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependenc
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 169

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The Princess, sitting in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, sent a slave to find out what the noise was about, who came back laughing, so that the Princess scolded her.

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**Who acts:** Princess, noise · **What happens:** sit, send, find out, be, laugh, scold · **To what, where:** hall, slave, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, noise), 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:pg503:12:169
# text = The Princess, sitting in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, sent a slave to find out what the noise was about, who came back laughing, so that the Princess scolded her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  | the hall of four twenty windows |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **send** | past | the Princess | a slave |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 3 | **find out** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | the noise |  |  |  |  | about, come *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | the noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scold** | past | the Princess | palace |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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