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title: Felicia was hidden in the shade, too much astonished by all she saw… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Felicia was hidden in the shade, too much astonished by all she saw to venture to move; but in a few moments the Queen said: Who acts: Felicia, Queen. 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 23

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Felicia was hidden in the shade, too much astonished by all she saw to venture to move; but in a few moments the Queen said:

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**Who acts:** Felicia, Queen · **What happens:** hide, astonish, see, venture, move, say · **To what, where:** Felicia, shade, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Queen), 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:pg503:22:23
# text = Felicia was hidden in the shade, too much astonished by all she saw to venture to move; but in a few moments the Queen said:
1	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · passive |  | Felicia |  | the shade |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in shade=Location |
| 2 | **astonish** | participle · passive |  | much |  |  |  | by all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past | Felicia |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **venture** | to-infinitive | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  | moment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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