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title: Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and has… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and hastened to put back all the other precious things precisely as she had found them. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 51

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Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and hastened to put back all the other precious things precisely as she had found them.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** not be, obey, hasten, put back, find · **To what, where:** other precious things, courage

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:35:51
# text = Terrified as the Princess was, she did not hesitate to obey, and hastened to put back all the other precious things precisely as she had found them.
1	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
24	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | the Princess |  |  |  |  | hesitate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obey** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put back** | to-infinitive |  | all other precious things |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
| 5 | **find** | past · perfect | Princess | courage |  |  |  | precisely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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