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title: Presently she was surprised to see the whole bush rustling and shaki… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently she was surprised to see the whole bush rustling and shaking, and a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud said: Who acts: Princess, whole bush, soft little voice. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 93

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Presently she was surprised to see the whole bush rustling and shaking, and a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud said:

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**Who acts:** Princess, whole bush, soft little voice · **What happens:** be, see, rustle, shake, say · **To what, where:** whole bush · **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, whole bush, soft little voice), 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:pg540:4:93
# text = Presently she was surprised to see the whole bush rustling and shaking, and a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud said:
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	rustling	rustle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	rosebud	rosebud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | presently, surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | the whole bush |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rustle** | gerund | the whole bush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shake** | gerund | the whole bush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a soft little voice from the prettiest rosebud |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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