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title: But she was very sorrowful, and said to him, ‘Why didst thou not rem… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was very sorrowful, and said to him, ‘Why didst thou not remember my words, and listen only to what thy father said? Who acts: Queen, thou, father, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 45

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But she was very sorrowful, and said to him, ‘Why didst thou not remember my words, and listen only to what thy father said?

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**Who acts:** Queen, thou, father, my · **What happens:** be, say, not remember, listen, word · **To what, where:** King, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, thou, father, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:2098`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:26:45
# text = But she was very sorrowful, and said to him, ‘Why didst thou not remember my words, and listen only to what thy father said?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen *not said here* |  | King |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | thou | my words |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thy father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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