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title: In despair she cried, ‘Take away these miserable gauds! what pleasur… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In despair she cried, ‘Take away these miserable gauds! what pleasure has a wretched captive in the sight of them?’ and then she fell insensible upon the floor, and the cruel Queen laughed maliciously, and went away with Turritella, leaving her there without comfort or aid. Who acts: Princess, pleas
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 39

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In despair she cried, ‘Take away these miserable gauds! what pleasure has a wretched captive in the sight of them?’ and then she fell insensible upon the floor, and the cruel Queen laughed maliciously, and went away with Turritella, leaving her there without comfort or aid.

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**Who acts:** Princess, pleasure, cruel Queen · **What happens:** cry, take away, have, fall, laugh, go away · **To what, where:** despair, miserable gauds, wretched captive, sight, floor, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, pleasure, cruel Queen), 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:pg7277:3:39
# text = In despair she cried, ‘Take away these miserable gauds! what pleasure has a wretched captive in the sight of them?’ and then she fell insensible upon the floor, and the cruel Queen laughed maliciously, and went away with Turritella, leaving her there without comfort or aid.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gauds	gaud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	away	away	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
51	without	without	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Princess |  |  | despair |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive |  | this miserable gauds |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaud=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | pleasure | a wretched captive |  | the sight of gauds |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Princess |  |  | the floor | then | insensible *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon floor=Location |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | the cruel Queen |  |  |  |  | maliciously *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go away** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Turritella; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with turritella=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **leave** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess |  | there |  | without comfort or aid | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **sight** |  |  | gauds *= gaud* |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:** «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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