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title: And she told him all about her two cats, and how brave Gon had been,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she told him all about her two cats, and how brave Gon had been, and how he had delivered her from her enemy the serpent. Who acts: Princess, brave Gon, Gon. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 64

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And she told him all about her two cats, and how brave Gon had been, and how he had delivered her from her enemy the serpent.

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**Who acts:** Princess, brave Gon, Gon · **What happens:** tell, be, deliver · **To what, where:** two cats, Princess, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, brave Gon, Gon), 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:pg5615:1:64
# text = And she told him all about her two cats, and how brave Gon had been, and how he had delivered her from her enemy the serpent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  | two cats |  |  | about Paw | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past · perfect | brave Gon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | past · perfect | Gon | Princess |  | Princess's enemy  the serpent |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from enemy=Initial\_Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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