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title: The Princess in her fright exclaimed, ‘That is the Crab himself!’ — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess in her fright exclaimed, ‘That is the Crab himself!’ Who acts: Princess, That. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 65

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The Princess in her fright exclaimed, ‘That is the Crab himself!’

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**Who acts:** Princess, That · **What happens:** exclaim, be, fright · **To what, where:** Crab

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, That), 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:pg640:7:65
# text = The Princess in her fright exclaimed, ‘That is the Crab himself!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Princess in Princess's fright |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | That | the Crab |  |  |  | prince *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fright** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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