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title: He was naturally alarmed and indignant, and, after thinking it over… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was naturally alarmed and indignant, and, after thinking it over a little, he begged an audience of the Princess, and led the conversation so cunningly up to the subject that was uppermost in her thoughts, as well as his own, that she presently told him all about the matter and asked his advice a
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 52

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He was naturally alarmed and indignant, and, after thinking it over a little, he begged an audience of the Princess, and led the conversation so cunningly up to the subject that was uppermost in her thoughts, as well as his own, that she presently told him all about the matter and asked his advice as to what it would be best to do.

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**Who acts:** Mousta, subject, Princess, it · **What happens:** alarm, think, beg, lead, be, tell · **To what, where:** Mousta, word, little, audience, conversation, subject · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Mousta, subject, Princess, it), 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:pg7277:16:52
# text = He was naturally alarmed and indignant, and, after thinking it over a little, he begged an audience of the Princess, and led the conversation so cunningly up to the subject that was uppermost in her thoughts, as well as his own, that she presently told him all about the matter and asked his advice as to what it would be best to do.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	26	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	all	all	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	63	case	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	fixed	_	_
63	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	58	ccomp	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
65	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
66	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	67	cop	_	_
67	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	63	nsubj	_	_
68	to	to	PART	TO	_	69	mark	_	_
69	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	67	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | Mousta |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Mousta *not said here* | word |  | a little |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Mousta | a audience of the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient |
| 4 | **lead** | past | Mousta *not said here* | the conversation |  | the subject |  | cunningly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme up subject=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | the subject |  |  | Princess's thoughts |  | uppermost *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  | Mousta |  |  | about the matter; presently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about matter=Topic |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Princess *not said here* | Mousta's advice |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **think** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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