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title: Now one of the Princess’s elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now one of the Princess’s elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, had found out about everything, and went to pay her youngest sister a visit in the ruined castle. Who acts: elder sisters, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its dependenc
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 17

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Now one of the Princess’s elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, had found out about everything, and went to pay her youngest sister a visit in the ruined castle.

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**Who acts:** elder sisters, one · **What happens:** be, find out, go, pay, ruin · **To what, where:** youngest sister

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder sisters, one), 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:pg640:18:17
# text = Now one of the Princess’s elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, had found out about everything, and went to pay her youngest sister a visit in the ruined castle.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Princess's elder sisters |  |  |  |  | inquisitive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | about everything | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past | one of the Princess's elder sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | one of the Princess's elder sisters *not said here* |  | Princess's youngest sister |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient visit=Asset |
| 5 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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