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title: When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time. Who acts: delivered princess, princess,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 80

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When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time.

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**Who acts:** delivered princess, princess, all, tailors · **What happens:** deliver, spring, think, be, have, know · **To what, where:** message, feet, much use, lovely mantle, dress · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delivered princess, princess, all, tailors), 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:pg5615:25:80
# text = When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux	_	_
19	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
50	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	ccomp	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | the message |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the delivered princess |  |  | princess's feet |  | with delight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · progressive | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | all | much use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Patient |
| 6 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | princess | no dress |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
| 7 | **know** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **is** | would | the tailors |  |  |  | time | ready *property* | tree rules |

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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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