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title: While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as ever, was feeling terribly sad at being so rapidly torn away from his beloved Princess, but he knew too well how powerful the Fairy was to have any hope of escaping from her except by great patience and cunning. Who acts: Princess,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 88

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While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as ever, was feeling terribly sad at being so rapidly torn away from his beloved Princess, but he knew too well how powerful the Fairy was to have any hope of escaping from her except by great patience and cunning.

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**Who acts:** Princess, King, powerful Fairy, hope · **What happens:** say, love, feel, tear away, know, have · **To what, where:** this, Princess, hope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, King, powerful Fairy, hope), 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:pg503:6:88
# text = While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as ever, was feeling terribly sad at being so rapidly torn away from his beloved Princess, but he knew too well how powerful the Fairy was to have any hope of escaping from her except by great patience and cunning.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
39	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
40	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
46	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
47	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
52	except	except	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Princess | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **love** | past | the King | Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past · progressive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tear away** | gerund · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from King's beloved Princess; away, rapidly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: from princess=Trajectory |
| 5 | **know** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | the powerful Fairy | any hope |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient |
| 7 | **escape** | gerund | any hope *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | except great patience and cunning | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme her=Initial\_Location |

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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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