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title: In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess’s arms ached with te… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess’s arms ached with tearing them down, and yet she was no nearer to getting out, and the wicked Enchanter behind her laughed maliciously. Who acts: end, arms, Princess, wicked Enchanter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branc
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 91

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In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess’s arms ached with tearing them down, and yet she was no nearer to getting out, and the wicked Enchanter behind her laughed maliciously.

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**Who acts:** end, arms, Princess, wicked Enchanter · **What happens:** be, ache, tear down, get out, laugh · **To what, where:** fact, arms

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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 (end, arms, Princess, wicked Enchanter), 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:pg540:35:91
# text = In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess’s arms ached with tearing them down, and yet she was no nearer to getting out, and the wicked Enchanter behind her laughed maliciously.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ached	ache	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
38	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no end to snakes |  |  | fact; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location |
| 2 | **ache** | past | the Princess's arms |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tear down** | gerund | the Princess's arms *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  | yet | near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get out** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | the wicked Enchanter behind Princess |  |  |  |  | maliciously *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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