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title: There the Prince held Graciosa’s hand in his, and made her put the t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There the Prince held Graciosa’s hand in his, and made her put the tip of her little finger into her mouth, and look towards the town, and immediately she saw the wicked Queen go to the King, and heard her say to him, ‘That miserable Princess is dead, and no great loss either. Who acts: Prince, Grac
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 41

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There the Prince held Graciosa’s hand in his, and made her put the tip of her little finger into her mouth, and look towards the town, and immediately she saw the wicked Queen go to the King, and heard her say to him, ‘That miserable Princess is dead, and no great loss either.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Graciosa, wicked Queen, Queen, miserable Princess · **What happens:** hold, make, put, look, see, go · **To what, where:** hand, Graciosa, tip, mouth, Queen, crystal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prince, Graciosa, wicked Queen, 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:pg540:24:41
# text = There the Prince held Graciosa’s hand in his, and made her put the tip of her little finger into her mouth, and look towards the town, and immediately she saw the wicked Queen go to the King, and heard her say to him, ‘That miserable Princess is dead, and no great loss either.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
52	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	60	det	_	_
59	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
61	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Prince | Graciosa's hand |  | there |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Prince *not said here* | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | the tip of Graciosa's little finger |  | Graciosa's mouth |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tip=Goal |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the town | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards town=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | present | the wicked Queen |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **hear** | past | Graciosa *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  | crystal |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 9 | **is** | present | that miserable Princess |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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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