--- title: However, she said nothing to her sisters, but as she met the boy by… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, she said nothing to her sisters, but as she met the boy by accident while she was walking under the shade of the elms, she suddenly stopped as if to speak to him; then, altering her mind, went on her way. Who acts: Lina. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/104/) [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 Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/) / 104 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 104 However, she said nothing to her sisters, but as she met the boy by accident while she was walking under the shade of the elms, she suddenly stopped as if to speak to him; then, altering her mind, went on her way. **Who acts:** Lina · **What happens:** say, meet, walk, stop, speak, alter · **To what, where:** nothing, sisters, boy, shade, mind, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina), 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:pg540:2:104 # text = However, she said nothing to her sisters, but as she met the boy by accident while she was walking under the shade of the elms, she suddenly stopped as if to speak to him; then, altering her mind, went on her way. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 elms elm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 altering alter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lina | nothing | Lina's sisters | | | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to sister=Recipient | | 2 | **meet** | past | Lina | the boy | | | | by accident | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent | | 3 | **walk** | past · progressive | Lina | | | the shade of the elms | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Trajectory | | 4 | **stop** | past | Lina | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lina *not said here* | | boy | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **alter** | gerund | Lina *not said here* | Lina's mind | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 7 | **go** | past | Lina *not said here* | | | Lina's way | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | | 8 | **shade** | | | the elms | | | | | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **mind** | | Lina | | | | | | nom mind «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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/105/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)