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title: Then, as soon as the King’s daughter was alone with her maidens, she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as soon as the King’s daughter was alone with her maidens, she exclaimed: ‘Now, pray make a great effort and don’t even _look_ at those spinning-wheels.’ Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 37

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Then, as soon as the King’s daughter was alone with her maidens, she exclaimed: ‘Now, pray make a great effort and don’t even \_look\_ at those spinning-wheels.’

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** be, exclaim, pray, make, look, spin · **To what, where:** great effort

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg7277:43:37
# text = Then, as soon as the King’s daughter was alone with her maidens, she exclaimed: ‘Now, pray make a great effort and don’t even _look_ at those spinning-wheels.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	_
36	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King's daughter |  |  |  |  | as daughter's maidens; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | daughter |  |  |  | then | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | present | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | daughter *not said here* | a great effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive · do-support | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at those | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at that=Theme |
| 6 | **spin** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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