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title: By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were amazed to find her up in the turret, for they said she could only have got there by magic. Who acts: guards, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 52

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By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were amazed to find her up in the turret, for they said she could only have got there by magic.

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**Who acts:** guards, Princess · **What happens:** seek, find up, say, get · **To what, where:** Princess, turret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (guards, 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:pg540:35:52
# text = By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were amazed to find her up in the turret, for they said she could only have got there by magic.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past · progressive | Princess's guards |  |  |  | time | everywhere *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find up** | to-infinitive | Princess's guards *not said here* | Princess |  | the turret |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | guards *= guard* | the turret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | could · perfect | Princess |  |  | there |  | by magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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