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title: Felicia did not answer, but she cried more bitterly than ever, and w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Felicia did not answer, but she cried more bitterly than ever, and went away to her own little room. Who acts: Felicia. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 14

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Felicia did not answer, but she cried more bitterly than ever, and went away to her own little room.

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**Who acts:** Felicia · **What happens:** not answer, cry, go away · **To what, where:** own little room

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia), 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:pg503:22:14
# text = Felicia did not answer, but she cried more bitterly than ever, and went away to her own little room.
1	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Felicia |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Felicia |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go away** | past | Felicia *not said here* |  |  | Felicia's own little room |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to 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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