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title: So the poor Princess was dragged away, without any power of effectin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the poor Princess was dragged away, without any power of effecting an escape, or of letting her sisters know what had become of her. Who acts: power, sisters. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 98

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So the poor Princess was dragged away, without any power of effecting an escape, or of letting her sisters know what had become of her.

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**Who acts:** power, sisters · **What happens:** drag away, effect, let, know, become · **To what, where:** poor Princess, escape · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, sisters), 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:pg7128:9:98
# text = So the poor Princess was dragged away, without any power of effecting an escape, or of letting her sisters know what had become of her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	effecting	effect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag away** | past · passive |  | the poor Princess |  |  |  | without any power; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **effect** | gerund | any power *not said here* | a escape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | present | Magician's sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of Magician | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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