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title: She was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 20

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She was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering that it was very uncivil to leave her company, she went down a little back staircase, and with such excessive haste that she had twice or thrice like to have broken her neck.

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**Who acts:** curiosity, it, manner · **What happens:** press, consider, be, leave, go down, have · **To what, where:** manner, company, little back staircase, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, it, manner), 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:pg503:40:20
# text = She was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering that it was very uncivil to leave her company, she went down a little back staircase, and with such excessive haste that she had twice or thrice like to have broken her neck.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	uncivil	uncivil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
45	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past · passive | manner's curiosity | manner |  |  |  | with such excessive haste | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme that=Result |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund | manner's curiosity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | uncivil *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | manner's company |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 5 | **go down** | past | manner | a little back staircase |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **have** | past | manner |  |  |  |  | thrice *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **break** | to-infinitive · perfect | manner *not said here* | manner's neck |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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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