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title: But Fanfaronade, seeing that she had found something good, and was n… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Fanfaronade, seeing that she had found something good, and was not going to share it with him, ran after her in such a fury that she hastily drew out the Queen’s carbuncle, which had the property of rendering people invisible if they were in danger, and when she was safely hidden from him she re
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 111

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But Fanfaronade, seeing that she had found something good, and was not going to share it with him, ran after her in such a fury that she hastily drew out the Queen’s carbuncle, which had the property of rendering people invisible if they were in danger, and when she was safely hidden from him she reproached him gently for his unkindness.

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**Who acts:** Fanfaronade, nightingale, carbuncle, property, people · **What happens:** see, find, not go, share, run, draw out · **To what, where:** something, advice, fury, carbuncle, property, people · **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 (Fanfaronade, nightingale, carbuncle, property), 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:pg540:4:111
# text = But Fanfaronade, seeing that she had found something good, and was not going to share it with him, ran after her in such a fury that she hastily drew out the Queen’s carbuncle, which had the property of rendering people invisible if they were in danger, and when she was safely hidden from him she reproached him gently for his unkindness.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
45	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
54	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	58	advmod	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
57	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	advcl	_	_
59	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	reproached	reproach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
63	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
65	for	for	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	unkindness	unkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Fanfaronade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | nightingale | something |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go** | past · progressive | nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **share** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* | advice |  |  |  | with Fanfaronade | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | past | Fanfaronade |  |  | such fury | after nightingale |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Trajectory |
| 6 | **draw out** | past | nightingale | the Queen's carbuncle |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbuncle=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | the Queen's carbuncle | the property |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient |
| 8 | **render** | gerund | the property *not said here* | people |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **hide** | past · passive |  | nightingale |  |  |  | from Fanfaronade; safely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary |
| 11 | **reproach** | past | nightingale | Fanfaronade |  |  |  | for Fanfaronade's unkindness; gently *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for unkindness=Attribute |

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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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