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title: Upon which she muttered something and passed on, but hid herself in… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon which she muttered something and passed on, but hid herself in a hollow tree, from which she could see all that happened. Who acts: Queen, that. 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 7

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Upon which she muttered something and passed on, but hid herself in a hollow tree, from which she could see all that happened.

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**Who acts:** Queen, that · **What happens:** mutter, pass on, hide, see, happen · **To what, where:** something, Queen, hollow tree · **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 (Queen, that), 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:pg540:3:7
# text = Upon which she muttered something and passed on, but hid herself in a hollow tree, from which she could see all that happened.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | Queen | something |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 2 | **pass on** | participle | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | past |  | Queen |  | a hollow tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in tree=Location |
| 4 | **see** | could | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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