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title: The Princess stood quite still at first from sheer bewilderment, but… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 19

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The Princess stood quite still at first from sheer bewilderment, but when the last sound of the retreating carriages died away in the distance she began to run aimlessly hither and thither, sometimes knocking herself against a tree, sometimes tripping over a stone, fearing every minute that she would be eaten up by the lions.

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**Who acts:** Princess, last sound, lions · **What happens:** stand, retreat, die away, begin, run, knock · **To what, where:** sheer bewilderment, distance, Princess, tree, stone

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, last sound, lions), 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:pg540:24:19
# text = The Princess stood quite still at first from sheer bewilderment, but when the last sound of the retreating carriages died away in the distance she began to run aimlessly hither and thither, sometimes knocking herself against a tree, sometimes tripping over a stone, fearing every minute that she would be eaten up by the lions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	retreating	retreat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
37	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	against	against	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
49	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	det	_	_
50	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	_
56	up	up	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	by	by	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Princess |  |  | sheer bewilderment | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location |
| 2 | **retreat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **die away** | past | the last sound of the retreating carriages |  |  |  |  | in the distance; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in distance=Attribute |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Princess | the distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aimlessly, hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **knock** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess |  | a tree |  | sometimes *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme against tree=Destination |
| 7 | **trip** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  | a stone |  | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory |
| 8 | **fear** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **eat up** | would · passive | the lions | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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