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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 108

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Now during her whole life, the princess had been so carefully brought up, that she had never left the gardens of the palace, so that the sight of the hills and valleys and tinkling streams, and the song of the larks and blackbirds, made her almost beside herself with wonder and delight.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, song, larks · **What happens:** bring up, not leave, tinkle, make, sight, sing · **To what, where:** princess, gardens, remembrance, hills

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, song, larks), 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:pg641:38:108
# text = Now during her whole life, the princess had been so carefully brought up, that she had never left the gardens of the palace, so that the sight of the hills and valleys and tinkling streams, and the song of the larks and blackbirds, made her almost beside herself with wonder and delight.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	larks	lark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	49	obl	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the princess |  |  | during remembrance's whole life; now | carefully *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | past · perfect | remembrance | the gardens of the palace |  |  |  | so the sight of the hills and valleys and tinkling streams | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 3 | **tinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | the song of the larks and blackbirds | remembrance |  |  |  | beside remembrance; with wonder and delight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the hills and valleys and tinkling streams |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **sing** |  | the larks and blackbirds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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