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title: From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest work, and each morning something more disagreeable seemed to await her. Who acts: something. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9

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From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest work, and each morning something more disagreeable seemed to await her.

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** put, seem, await · **To what, where:** poor princess, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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:pg5615:31:9
# text = From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest work, and each morning something more disagreeable seemed to await her.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | the poor princess |  |  | day | to the hardest work | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **seem** | past | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **await** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | 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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