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title: When the Princess had thanked her once more for her hospitality and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Princess had thanked her once more for her hospitality and for her good advice, and had thrown away one pair of shoes that were worn out, and had put on a second pair, she tied up the chicken bones in a bundle, and taking her baby in her arms and her staff in her hand, she set out once more
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 128

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When the Princess had thanked her once more for her hospitality and for her good advice, and had thrown away one pair of shoes that were worn out, and had put on a second pair, she tied up the chicken bones in a bundle, and taking her baby in her arms and her staff in her hand, she set out once more on her wanderings.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** thank, throw away, wear out, put, tie up, take · **To what, where:** Princess, chicken, one pair, second pair, chicken bones, bundle

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg540:12:128
# text = When the Princess had thanked her once more for her hospitality and for her good advice, and had thrown away one pair of shoes that were worn out, and had put on a second pair, she tied up the chicken bones in a bundle, and taking her baby in her arms and her staff in her hand, she set out once more on her wanderings.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
65	out	out	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	_
66	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	67	advmod	_	_
67	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	64	advmod	_	_
68	on	on	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
70	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Princess | chicken |  |  | for Princess's hospitality and Princess's good advice | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw away** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | one pair of shoes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **put** | past · perfect |  |  |  | a second pair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination |
| 5 | **tie up** | past | Princess | the chicken bones |  | a bundle |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess's baby |  | Princess's arms and Princess's staff |  | in Princess's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in arm=Location |
| 7 | **set out** | past | Princess |  |  | Princess's wanderings |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **wander** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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 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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