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title: Everything the Princess saw was new to her, and in passing through m… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything the Princess saw was new to her, and in passing through mountains, valleys, and towns, she asked a thousand questions. Who acts: Princess, Everything. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 142

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Everything the Princess saw was new to her, and in passing through mountains, valleys, and towns, she asked a thousand questions.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Everything · **What happens:** see, be, pass, ask · **To what, where:** princess, mountains, thousand questions

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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 (Princess, Everything), 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:pg540:40:142
# text = Everything the Princess saw was new to her, and in passing through mountains, valleys, and towns, she asked a thousand questions.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Everything |  | princess |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | princess *not said here* |  |  | mountains and valleys and towns |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mountain=Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | princess | thousand questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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