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title: Her elder sisters however left her no peace, and will she, nill she,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her elder sisters however left her no peace, and will she, nill she, they dragged her up to the table, and in fear and trembling she turned over the page and read: Who acts: elder sisters, Princess, Sisters. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 35

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Her elder sisters however left her no peace, and will she, nill she, they dragged her up to the table, and in fear and trembling she turned over the page and read:

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**Who acts:** elder sisters, Princess, Sisters · **What happens:** leave, nill, drag up, tremble, turn, read · **To what, where:** peace, door, Princess, table, fear

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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 (elder sisters, Princess, Sisters), 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:pg540:12:35
# text = Her elder sisters however left her no peace, and will she, nill she, they dragged her up to the table, and in fear and trembling she turned over the page and read:
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nill	nill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Princess's elder sisters | Princess's peace |  |  |  | however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 2 | **nill** | future | Princess | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag up** | past | Sisters *= sister* | Princess |  | the table |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to table=Destination |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Princess |  |  | fear |  | over the page | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fear=Source over page=Trajectory |
| 6 | **read** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pacify** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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