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title: Princess Margaret was not very glad to hear of her mother's place be… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Princess Margaret was not very glad to hear of her mother's place being taken, but she did not repine but did her father's bidding. Who acts: Princess Margaret, Margaret, father. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and 
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 5

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Princess Margaret was not very glad to hear of her mother's place being taken, but she did not repine but did her father's bidding.

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**Who acts:** Princess Margaret, Margaret, father · **What happens:** not be, hear, take, not repine, do, bid · **To what, where:** place, bidding

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Margaret, Margaret, father), 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:pg7439:39:5
# text = Princess Margaret was not very glad to hear of her mother's place being taken, but she did not repine but did her father's bidding.
1	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	repine	repine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Princess Margaret |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Princess Margaret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Margaret's mother's place | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | gerund · passive |  | Margaret's mother's place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **not** **repine** | past · do-support | Margaret |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past | Margaret *not said here* | mother's father's bidding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bid** |  | mother's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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