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title: You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the power of that miserable Queen.’ Who acts: You, Percinet. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 59

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You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the power of that miserable Queen.’

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**Who acts:** You, Percinet · **What happens:** guess, suffer, be · **To what, where:** anxiety, power

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Percinet), 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:pg540:25:59
# text = You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the power of that miserable Queen.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | present | You | the anxiety |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | present · perfect | Percinet | the anxiety *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anxiety=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | you |  |  | the power |  | of miserable Queen | 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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