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title: And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the wood,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the wood, and sat down under a thorn tree, where a nightingale was singing. Who acts: Princess, nightingale. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 108

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And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the wood, and sat down under a thorn tree, where a nightingale was singing.

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**Who acts:** Princess, nightingale · **What happens:** say, wander away, sit down, sing · **To what, where:** thickest part, thorn 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 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, nightingale), 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:pg540:4:108
# text = And so saying she wandered away into the thickest part of the wood, and sat down under a thorn tree, where a nightingale was singing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wander away** | past | Princess |  |  | the thickest part of the wood |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into part=Destination |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  | a thorn tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | a nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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