--- title: Struck with astonishment and sorrow, she uttered a terrible cry, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Struck with astonishment and sorrow, she uttered a terrible cry, and threw herself down beside the pretended King, weeping, and howling, and calling upon her eleven sisters, who were also fairies, and who came to her assistance. Who acts: rest, eleven sisters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, eleven sisters), 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:pg503:7:57 # text = Struck with astonishment and sorrow, she uttered a terrible cry, and threw herself down beside the pretended King, weeping, and howling, and calling upon her eleven sisters, who were also fairies, and who came to her assistance. 1 Struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 beside beside ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 howling howl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 also also ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** | participle | rest *not said here* | | | | | with astonishment and sorrow | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with astonishment=Theme | | 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | rest | a terrible cry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | | 3 | **throw down** | past | | rest | | | | beside the pretended King | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme beside king=Destination | | 4 | **pretend** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **weep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **howl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **call** | gerund | | | | | | upon rest's eleven sisters and fairies | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | past | rest's eleven sisters and fairies | fairies | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **come** | past | | | | rest's assistance | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **assist** | | rest | | | | | | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/58/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/)