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title: When the Princess heard this she turned quite pale, and almost faint… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Princess heard this she turned quite pale, and almost fainted away with fear, for the little tailor had hit the mark, and she had firmly believed that not a soul could guess it. Who acts: Princess, soul. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 17

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When the Princess heard this she turned quite pale, and almost fainted away with fear, for the little tailor had hit the mark, and she had firmly believed that not a soul could guess it.

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**Who acts:** Princess, soul · **What happens:** hear, turn, faint away, hit, believe, guess · **To what, where:** this, little tailor, Princess, mark

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, soul), 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:pg7277:51:17
# text = When the Princess heard this she turned quite pale, and almost fainted away with fear, for the little tailor had hit the mark, and she had firmly believed that not a soul could guess it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Princess | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **faint away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with fear; almost, away *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hit** | past · perfect · passive |  | the little tailor |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient mark=Result |
| 5 | **believe** | past · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **guess** | could | a soul | mark |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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