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title: The nurse, who kept the Princess informed of everything that went fo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 40

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The nurse, who kept the Princess informed of everything that went forward in the town, did not fail to repeat the news that so nearly concerned her, and gave such a description of the splendour in which the ambassador Fanfaronade would enter the town, that the Princess was wild to see the procession for herself.

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**Who acts:** nurse, ambassador, Princess · **What happens:** keep, inform, go, not fail, repeat, concern · **To what, where:** Princess, town, news, description, splendour, procession

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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, ambassador, Princess), 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:pg540:3:40
# text = The nurse, who kept the Princess informed of everything that went forward in the town, did not fail to repeat the news that so nearly concerned her, and gave such a description of the splendour in which the ambassador Fanfaronade would enter the town, that the Princess was wild to see the procession for herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	concerned	concern	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	35	det:predet	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the nurse | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | participle |  | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | of everything | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of everything=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the town |  | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 4 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support | the nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | the nurse *not said here* | the news |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Eventuality |
| 6 | **concern** | past |  | the news |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer she=Result |
| 7 | **give** | past | the nurse *not said here* | such description of the splendour |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 8 | **enter** | would | the ambassador | the town |  | the splendour |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination |
| 9 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the procession |  |  |  | for Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus |
| 11 | **describe** |  |  | the splendour |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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