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title: Her sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor affl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted wife cried out from time to time: Who acts: sister, poor afflicted wife. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 49

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Her sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted wife cried out from time to time:

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**Who acts:** sister, poor afflicted wife · **What happens:** go up, afflict, cry out

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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 (sister, poor afflicted wife), 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:pg503:40:49
# text = Her sister Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted wife cried out from time to time:
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Anne's sister |  |  |  |  | upon the top of the tower | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **afflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the poor afflicted wife |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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