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title: Then the young prince put out a proclamation that whoever could put… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the young prince put out a proclamation that whoever could put on the glass slipper should be his bride. Who acts: proclamation. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 117

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Then the young prince put out a proclamation that whoever could put on the glass slipper should be his bride.

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**Who acts:** proclamation · **What happens:** put out, put, be · **To what, where:** young prince, glass slipper, bride

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proclamation), 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:pg14241:28:117
# text = Then the young prince put out a proclamation that whoever could put on the glass slipper should be his bride.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | participle · passive |  | the young prince |  |  | then |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **put** | could | a proclamation |  |  | the glass slipper |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | should | a proclamation | Prince's bride |  |  |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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