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description: At this the Queen was much horrified; nevertheless, she chose a third time, but with no better fortune, for the nurse, moving quickly, ran into the branch of a tree and blinded herself with a thorn. Who acts: Queen, nurse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, p
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 10

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At this the Queen was much horrified; nevertheless, she chose a third time, but with no better fortune, for the nurse, moving quickly, ran into the branch of a tree and blinded herself with a thorn.

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**Who acts:** Queen, nurse · **What happens:** horrify, choose, move, run, blind · **To what, where:** this, branch, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, nurse), 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:pg540:3:10
# text = At this the Queen was much horrified; nevertheless, she chose a third time, but with no better fortune, for the nurse, moving quickly, ran into the branch of a tree and blinded herself with a thorn.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	horrified	horrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
30	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	blinded	blind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **horrify** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **choose** | past | Queen |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | the nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the branch of a tree *result*; with no better fortune | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into branch=Result |
| 5 | **blind** | past | Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  | with a thorn | 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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