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title: They even suggested that she should carry weights in her pockets, or… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They even suggested that she should carry weights in her pockets, or have them tied to her ankles; but this idea was given up, as the princess found it so uncomfortable. Who acts: subjects, Diaphana, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 117

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They even suggested that she should carry weights in her pockets, or have them tied to her ankles; but this idea was given up, as the princess found it so uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** subjects, Diaphana, princess · **What happens:** suggest, carry, have, tie, give up, find · **To what, where:** weights, pockets, subjects, idea, report · **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 (subjects, Diaphana, princess), 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:pg5615:29:117
# text = They even suggested that she should carry weights in her pockets, or have them tied to her ankles; but this idea was given up, as the princess found it so uncomfortable.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	weights	weight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	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	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** | should | Diaphana | weights |  | Diaphana's pockets |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent weight=Value in pocket=Location |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | Diaphana *not said here* | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie** | participle | subjects *= subject* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Diaphana's ankles | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to ankle=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **give up** | past · passive |  | this idea |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 6 | **find** | past | the princess | report |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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