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title: The Princess’s nurse, who had never left her, sometimes told her abo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess’s nurse, who had never left her, sometimes told her about the world outside the tower, and though the Princess had never seen anything for herself, yet she always understood exactly, thanks to the second Fairy’s gift. Who acts: nurse, Princess, second Fairy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 33

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The Princess’s nurse, who had never left her, sometimes told her about the world outside the tower, and though the Princess had never seen anything for herself, yet she always understood exactly, thanks to the second Fairy’s gift.

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**Who acts:** nurse, Princess, second Fairy · **What happens:** not leave, tell, not see, understand, gift · **To what, where:** nurse, Princess, anything, thanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nurse, Princess, second Fairy), 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:pg540:3:33
# text = The Princess’s nurse, who had never left her, sometimes told her about the world outside the tower, and though the Princess had never seen anything for herself, yet she always understood exactly, thanks to the second Fairy’s gift.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	_
36	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
37	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	43	amod	_	_
43	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Princess's nurse |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess's nurse |  | Princess |  |  | about the world outside the tower; sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | the Princess | anything |  |  |  | for Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **understand** | past | Princess | thanks to the second Fairy's gift |  |  |  | always, exactly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **gift** |  | the second Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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