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title: She was furiously angry and told the maiden that she had brought dow… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was furiously angry and told the maiden that she had brought down misery both on herself and on the Prince. Who acts: thread. 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 23

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She was furiously angry and told the maiden that she had brought down misery both on herself and on the Prince.

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**Who acts:** thread · **What happens:** be, tell, bring down · **To what, where:** maiden, misery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thread), 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:pg503:26:23
# text = She was furiously angry and told the maiden that she had brought down misery both on herself and on the Prince.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	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 | **is** | past | thread |  |  |  |  | angry, furiously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | thread *not said here* |  | the maiden |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring down** | past · perfect | thread | misery |  |  |  | on thread | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misery=Theme on herself=Destination |

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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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