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title: The Princess Lina was very angry, and when the Star Gazer presented… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess Lina was very angry, and when the Star Gazer presented her bouquet, she received it in a disdainful manner. Who acts: Princess Lina, Star Gazer, bouquet. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 140

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The Princess Lina was very angry, and when the Star Gazer presented her bouquet, she received it in a disdainful manner.

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**Who acts:** Princess Lina, Star Gazer, bouquet · **What happens:** be, present, receive · **To what, where:** bouquet, water, disdainful manner

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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 (Princess Lina, Star Gazer, bouquet), 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:pg540:2:140
# text = The Princess Lina was very angry, and when the Star Gazer presented her bouquet, she received it in a disdainful manner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Lina	Lina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	disdainful	disdainful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Princess Lina |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **present** | past | the Star Gazer | Lina's bouquet |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bouquet=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past | bouquet | water |  | a disdainful manner |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in manner=Location |

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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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