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title: Quite terrified, she drew back, crying out: “Oh! my dear pinks, how… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Quite terrified, she drew back, crying out: “Oh! my dear pinks, how can you stay here in such bad company?” Who acts: Felicia, dear pinks. 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 81

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Quite terrified, she drew back, crying out: “Oh! my dear pinks, how can you stay here in such bad company?”

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**Who acts:** Felicia, dear pinks · **What happens:** draw back, cry out, stay · **To what, where:** such bad company · **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, dear pinks), 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:pg503:22:81
# text = Quite terrified, she drew back, crying out: “Oh! my dear pinks, how can you stay here in such bad company?”
1	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw back** | past | Felicia |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | Felicia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | can | my dear pinks |  |  | such bad company; here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=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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