--- title: “What shall I do?” she cried; “I shall be eaten up,” and being too f… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “What shall I do?” she cried; “I shall be eaten up,” and being too frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leaned against the tree under which she had been asleep. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/) / 31 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 31 “What shall I do?” she cried; “I shall be eaten up,” and being too frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leaned against the tree under which she had been asleep. **Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** do, cry, eat up, be, run, begin · **To what, where:** queen, single step, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:5:31 # text = “What shall I do?” she cried; “I shall be eaten up,” and being too frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leaned against the tree under which she had been asleep. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 leaned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 against against ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 under under ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 44 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | queen | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | queen | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat up** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | queen | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | frightened *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | | a single step | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | | 6 | **begin** | past | queen | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **learn** | past | queen *not said here* | | | | | against the tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | past · perfect | queen | | | the tree | | asleep *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/32/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/)