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title: ‘And, not one bit afraid, up he went to the princess, who was sittin… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And, not one bit afraid, up he went to the princess, who was sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel. Who acts: Kay, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 101

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‘And, not one bit afraid, up he went to the princess, who was sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel.

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**Who acts:** Kay, princess · **What happens:** go, sit, spin · **To what, where:** large pearl

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, 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:pg5615:9:101
# text = ‘And, not one bit afraid, up he went to the princess, who was sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel.
1	‘	‘	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Kay |  |  |  |  | to the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | the princess |  |  | a large pearl |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pearl=Location |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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