--- title: And her thoughts were so doleful that very soon she began to cry, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And her thoughts were so doleful that very soon she began to cry, and she cried, and cried, and forgot all about going back to the palace, until she suddenly saw a handsome page standing before her. Who acts: thoughts, Graciosa, handsome page. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graci --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/55/) [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/) / [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/) / 55 # The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 55 And her thoughts were so doleful that very soon she began to cry, and she cried, and cried, and forgot all about going back to the palace, until she suddenly saw a handsome page standing before her. **Who acts:** thoughts, Graciosa, handsome page · **What happens:** be, begin, cry, forget, go back, see · **To what, where:** handsome page This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Graciosa, handsome page), 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:pg540:23:55 # text = And her thoughts were so doleful that very soon she began to cry, and she cried, and cried, and forgot all about going back to the palace, until she suddenly saw a handsome page standing before her. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 doleful doleful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 about about SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Graciosa's thoughts | | | | | doleful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | Graciosa | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Graciosa | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **forget** | past | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **go back** | gerund | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | | 8 | **see** | past | Graciosa | a handsome page | | | | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus | | 9 | **stand** | gerund | a handsome page *not said here* | | | | before Graciosa | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 10 | **think** | | Graciosa | | | | | | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/56/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/)