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title: As to the poor Princess Fiordelisa, she cried all night without stop… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the poor Princess Fiordelisa, she cried all night without stopping. Who acts: Fiordelisa. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 52

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As to the poor Princess Fiordelisa, she cried all night without stopping.

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa · **What happens:** cry, stop

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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 (Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:2:52
# text = As to the poor Princess Fiordelisa, she cried all night without stopping.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | night | as the poor Princess Fiordelisa | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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