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title: Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever, and said e… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever, and said everything they could think of to turn the Princess from her idea. Who acts: nurse, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 48

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Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever, and said everything they could think of to turn the Princess from her idea.

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**Who acts:** nurse, King · **What happens:** cry, say, think, turn · **To what, where:** everything, Princess, idea · **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, King), 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:pg540:3:48
# text = Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever, and said everything they could think of to turn the Princess from her idea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the nurse and all others |  |  |  | then | hard *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the nurse and all others *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  | the Princess |  | Princess's idea |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from idea=Trajectory |

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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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