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title: Then the poor little Princess, shaking with terror, went down on her… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the poor little Princess, shaking with terror, went down on her knees, crying: Who acts: poor little Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 167

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Then the poor little Princess, shaking with terror, went down on her knees, crying:

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**Who acts:** poor little Princess · **What happens:** shake, go down, cry · **To what, where:** knees

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little 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:pg540:22:167
# text = Then the poor little Princess, shaking with terror, went down on her knees, crying:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund | the poor little Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with terror | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with terror=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **go down** | past | the poor little Princess |  |  | Princess's knees | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the poor little Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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