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title: But if anybody who went to see her happened to mention the charming… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if anybody who went to see her happened to mention the charming Princess, she would cry angrily: Who acts: anybody, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 9

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But if anybody who went to see her happened to mention the charming Princess, she would cry angrily:

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**Who acts:** anybody, Queen · **What happens:** go, see, happen, mention, cry · **To what, where:** Queen, charming

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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 (anybody, Queen), 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:pg540:23:9
# text = But if anybody who went to see her happened to mention the charming Princess, she would cry angrily:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anybody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | anybody *not said here* | the charming |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charming=Topic |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | would | Queen |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | 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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