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title: She easily guessed that she was to be kept out of sight for fear the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She easily guessed that she was to be kept out of sight for fear the King should fall in love with her; but then, how disappointing that was, for she already liked him very much, and would have been quite willing to be chosen for his bride! Who acts: visit, King, that. A sentence of «The Green Fairy
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 42

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She easily guessed that she was to be kept out of sight for fear the King should fall in love with her; but then, how disappointing that was, for she already liked him very much, and would have been quite willing to be chosen for his bride!

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**Who acts:** visit, King, that · **What happens:** guess, keep out, fall, disappoint, be, choose · **To what, where:** visit, sight, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (visit, King, 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:pg7277:2:42
# text = She easily guessed that she was to be kept out of sight for fear the King should fall in love with her; but then, how disappointing that was, for she already liked him very much, and would have been quite willing to be chosen for his bride!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	disappointing	disappoint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	already	already	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	cop	_	_
44	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	xcomp	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | visit |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep out** | past · passive |  | visit |  | sight |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme sight=Attribute |
| 3 | **fall** | should | the King |  |  | love |  | for fear; with visit | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 4 | **disappoint** | gerund | visit *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | would · perfect | visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **choose** | to-infinitive · passive | visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for King's bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for bride=Beneficiary |

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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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