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title: The Rose-maidens, fearing their stings, uttered little shrieks, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rose-maidens, fearing their stings, uttered little shrieks, and fled all together to a distance from the rest of the company. Who acts: Rose maidens, maidens. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 140

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The Rose-maidens, fearing their stings, uttered little shrieks, and fled all together to a distance from the rest of the company.

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**Who acts:** Rose maidens, maidens · **What happens:** fear, utter, flee, sting · **To what, where:** stings, little shrieks

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rose maidens, maidens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:638`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:8:140
# text = The Rose-maidens, fearing their stings, uttered little shrieks, and fled all together to a distance from the rest of the company.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | the Rose maidens *not said here* | maidens's stings |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the Rose maidens | little shrieks |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the Rose maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a distance from the rest of the company; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sting** |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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