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title: And when they stood in front of the throne where the princess was si… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they stood in front of the throne where the princess was sitting, then they could not think of anything to say except to repeat the last word she had spoken, and she did not much care to hear that again. Who acts: wits, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 77

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And when they stood in front of the throne where the princess was sitting, then they could not think of anything to say except to repeat the last word she had spoken, and she did not much care to hear that again.

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**Who acts:** wits, princess · **What happens:** stand, sit, not think, say, repeat, speak · **To what, where:** front, last word, that · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wits, 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:pg5615:9:77
# text = And when they stood in front of the throne where the princess was sitting, then they could not think of anything to say except to repeat the last word she had spoken, and she did not much care to hear that again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	except	except	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	csubj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obj	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | wits *= wit* |  |  | front of the throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | wits *= wit* |  |  |  | then | of anything | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **repeat** | to-infinitive |  | the last word |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | princess | the last word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **care** | past · do-support | princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  | again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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