--- title: Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that great happiness waited her sisters, but that a fate was in store for her such as had never before been known in the world. Who acts: thoughts, great happiness, fate, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The En --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/) / 44 # The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 44 Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that great happiness waited her sisters, but that a fate was in store for her such as had never before been known in the world. **Who acts:** thoughts, great happiness, fate, Princess · **What happens:** keep, turn, write, wait, be, not know · **To what, where:** book, sisters, store, world 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 (thoughts, great happiness, fate, Princess), 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:pg540:12:44 # text = Her thoughts kept turning to the book, in which stood written that great happiness waited her sisters, but that a fate was in store for her such as had never before been known in the world. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 29 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 before before ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Princess's thoughts | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | Princess's thoughts *not said here* | | | the book | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to book=Trajectory | | 3 | **write** | past · passive | Princess's thoughts *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in which=Destination | | 4 | **wait** | past | great happiness | Princess's sisters | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | a fate | | | store | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **know** | past · perfect · passive | a fate *not said here* | | | the world | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | | 7 | **think** | | Princess | | | | | | nom thought «cognition 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/45/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/)