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title: The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly again at the thou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly again at the thought that it was by the King’s orders that she had been thrown overboard. Who acts: Princess, thought, orders. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 224

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The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly again at the thought that it was by the King’s orders that she had been thrown overboard.

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**Who acts:** Princess, thought, orders · **What happens:** tell, weep, be, throw · **To what, where:** everything, Frisk, thought, Rosette · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, thought, orders), 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:pg540:11:224
# text = The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly again at the thought that it was by the King’s orders that she had been thrown overboard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
26	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess | everything | Frisk |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  | the thought | again | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | thought |  |  |  |  | by the King's orders | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive | the King's orders *not said here* | Rosette |  |  |  | overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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