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title: She thanked him for having freed her from the cruel witch’s power, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She thanked him for having freed her from the cruel witch’s power, and willingly consented to marry him. Who acts: crab. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 117

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She thanked him for having freed her from the cruel witch’s power, and willingly consented to marry him.

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**Who acts:** crab · **What happens:** thank, free, consent, marry · **To what, where:** prince, crab, power

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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:pg503:26:117
# text = She thanked him for having freed her from the cruel witch’s power, and willingly consented to marry him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | crab |  | prince |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **free** | gerund · perfect | crab *not said here* | crab |  | the cruel witch's power |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source |
| 3 | **consent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  | prince |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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