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title: Graciosa was so happy to have found Percinet, and to have escaped fr… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Graciosa was so happy to have found Percinet, and to have escaped from the gloomy forest and all its terrors, that she was very hungry and very merry, and they were a gay party. Who acts: Graciosa, stags. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, with its depe
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 28

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Graciosa was so happy to have found Percinet, and to have escaped from the gloomy forest and all its terrors, that she was very hungry and very merry, and they were a gay party.

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**Who acts:** Graciosa, stags · **What happens:** be, find, escape · **To what, where:** Percinet, gloomy forest, gay party

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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 (Graciosa, stags), 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:pg540:24:28
# text = Graciosa was so happy to have found Percinet, and to have escaped from the gloomy forest and all its terrors, that she was very hungry and very merry, and they were a gay party.
1	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	terrors	terror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive · perfect | Graciosa *not said here* | Percinet |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percinet=Topic |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | the gloomy forest and forest's terrors |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Graciosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | stags *= stag* | a gay party |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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