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title: Then, turning to the little Princess, she kissed her rosy lips three… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, turning to the little Princess, she kissed her rosy lips three times, saying: Who acts: 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 92

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Then, turning to the little Princess, she kissed her rosy lips three times, saying:

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** turn, kiss, say · **To what, where:** rosy lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg540:22:92
# text = Then, turning to the little Princess, she kissed her rosy lips three times, saying:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the little Princess *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to princess=Result |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Princess | Princess's rosy lips |  |  | then; time |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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