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title: The Princess, in great dismay, ran hither and thither all about the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess, in great dismay, ran hither and thither all about the wood, tearing her dress, and hurting her pretty white hands with the thorns and brambles, but she could find nothing good to eat, and at last she had to go back sorrowfully to Fanfaronade. Who acts: Princess, nothing. A sentence of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 81

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The Princess, in great dismay, ran hither and thither all about the wood, tearing her dress, and hurting her pretty white hands with the thorns and brambles, but she could find nothing good to eat, and at last she had to go back sorrowfully to Fanfaronade.

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**Who acts:** Princess, nothing · **What happens:** run, tear, hurt, find, eat, have · **To what, where:** dress, pretty white hands, nothing, last

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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, nothing), 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:pg540:4:81
# text = The Princess, in great dismay, ran hither and thither all about the wood, tearing her dress, and hurting her pretty white hands with the thorns and brambles, but she could find nothing good to eat, and at last she had to go back sorrowfully to Fanfaronade.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	36	obj	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | Princess's dress |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location dress=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | Princess's pretty white hands |  |  |  | with the thorns and brambles | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | could | Princess | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | Princess |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorrowfully *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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