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title: Now there lived at the court a wise woman, and she said to Catherine… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there lived at the court a wise woman, and she said to Catherine, ‘You have suffered much, my poor girl, but at length your luck has turned, and I know by the weighing of the scales through the crown that you will die a queen.’ Who acts: woman, You, luck, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» b
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 13

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Now there lived at the court a wise woman, and she said to Catherine, ‘You have suffered much, my poor girl, but at length your luck has turned, and I know by the weighing of the scales through the crown that you will die a queen.’

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**Who acts:** woman, You, luck, I, crown · **What happens:** live, say, suffer, turn, know, die · **To what, where:** wise woman, court, Catherine, length, crown, queen · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, You, luck, I), 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:pg5615:19:13
# text = Now there lived at the court a wise woman, and she said to Catherine, ‘You have suffered much, my poor girl, but at length your luck has turned, and I know by the weighing of the scales through the crown that you will die a queen.’
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	weighing	weighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle |  | a wise woman |  | the court; there | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  | Catherine |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to catherine=Recipient |
| 3 | **suffer** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | present · perfect | your luck |  |  | length |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at length=Trajectory |
| 5 | **know** | present | I |  |  | the crown |  | by the weighing of the scales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **die** | future | the crown | a queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **weigh** |  |  | the scales |  |  |  |  | nom weighing «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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