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title: ‘Look, sisters,’ cried one, ‘surely that is the old woman that the k… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Look, sisters,’ cried one, ‘surely that is the old woman that the king sent for. Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39

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‘Look, sisters,’ cried one, ‘surely that is the old woman that the king sent for.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** look, cry, be, send · **To what, where:** sisters, one, old woman, king · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg5615:18:39
# text = ‘Look, sisters,’ cried one, ‘surely that is the old woman that the king sent for.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive |  | sisters |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | the old woman |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «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 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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