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title: The cunning Princess then laid her plans accordingly. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cunning Princess then laid her plans accordingly. Who acts: cunning. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 216

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The cunning Princess then laid her plans accordingly.

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**Who acts:** cunning · **What happens:** lay, plan · **To what, where:** plans

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning), 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:pg7277:22:216
# text = The cunning Princess then laid her plans accordingly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the cunning | cunning's plans |  |  | then | accordingly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 2 | **plan** |  | cunning |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «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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