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title: She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about si… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary. Who acts: Scarcely, witch. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its depe
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 136

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She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, witch · **What happens:** answer, call, be, keep, shut up · **To what, where:** Scarcely, witch, orange · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, witch), 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:pg540:40:136
# text = She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Scarcely |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  | Scarcely |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Scarcely |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  | the witch |  |  | time; year |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shut up** | participle | the witch *not said here* |  |  | a orange |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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