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title: This had happened so often that her subjects lived in terror of losi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This had happened so often that her subjects lived in terror of losing her altogether, and tried everything they could think of to keep her to the ground. Who acts: This, subjects, terror. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 116

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This had happened so often that her subjects lived in terror of losing her altogether, and tried everything they could think of to keep her to the ground.

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**Who acts:** This, subjects, terror · **What happens:** happen, live, lose, try, think, keep · **To what, where:** terror, Diaphana, everything · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, subjects, terror), 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:pg5615:29:116
# text = This had happened so often that her subjects lived in terror of losing her altogether, and tried everything they could think of to keep her to the ground.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · perfect | This |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Diaphana's subjects |  |  | terror |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | terror *not said here* | Diaphana |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **try** | past | Diaphana's subjects *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | could | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | Diaphana |  |  |  | to the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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