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title: However, the Duchess thought she must be black and blue after such a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the Duchess thought she must be black and blue after such a beating; so Graciosa, when she was released, pretended to feel very bad, and went away into her own room, where she told her nurse all that had happened, and then the nurse left her, and when the Princess turned round there stood P
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 99

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However, the Duchess thought she must be black and blue after such a beating; so Graciosa, when she was released, pretended to feel very bad, and went away into her own room, where she told her nurse all that had happened, and then the nurse left her, and when the Princess turned round there stood Percinet beside her.

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**Who acts:** Duchess, that, nurse, Princess · **What happens:** think, be, release, pretend, feel, go away · **To what, where:** duchess, own room, nurse, Percinet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Duchess, that, nurse, 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:pg540:23:99
# text = However, the Duchess thought she must be black and blue after such a beating; so Graciosa, when she was released, pretended to feel very bad, and went away into her own room, where she told her nurse all that had happened, and then the nurse left her, and when the Princess turned round there stood Percinet beside her.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	iobj	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	60	mark	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	parataxis	_	_
61	round	round	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	_
63	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
64	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
65	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Duchess |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | must | duchess |  |  |  | after such beating | black *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | duchess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **release** | past · passive |  | duchess |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go away** | past |  |  |  | duchess's own room |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | duchess |  | duchess's nurse |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **leave** | past | the nurse | duchess |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 11 | **turn round** | past | the Princess |  |  | there |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **stand** | past | the Duchess *not said here* | Percinet |  |  |  | beside Percinet | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent percinet=Theme beside she=Destination |

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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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