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title: So the Princess would sit looking up at the sky, and watching the cl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Princess would sit looking up at the sky, and watching the clouds float across, and wondering whether she should ever get out of her prison. Who acts: Princess, clouds. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 6

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So the Princess would sit looking up at the sky, and watching the clouds float across, and wondering whether she should ever get out of her prison.

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**Who acts:** Princess, clouds · **What happens:** sit, look up, watch, float, wonder, get out · **To what, where:** prison

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, clouds), 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:pg503:27:6
# text = So the Princess would sit looking up at the sky, and watching the clouds float across, and wondering whether she should ever get out of her prison.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	across	across	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | would | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look up** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **float** | present | the clouds |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **get out** | should | Princess | Princess's prison |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

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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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