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title: She went on: ‘And yet killed twelve--what is that?’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She went on: ‘And yet killed twelve--what is that?’ Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 45

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She went on: ‘And yet killed twelve--what is that?’

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** go on, kill, be · **To what, where:** that

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg7277:47:45
# text = She went on: ‘And yet killed twelve--what is that?’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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