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title: As Lucia was trying on her bridal wreath she said to her mother: “Th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As Lucia was trying on her bridal wreath she said to her mother: “This wedding-garland would please me indeed if father Peter could lead me to the church. Who acts: dame, wedding garland, father Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its d
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 15

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As Lucia was trying on her bridal wreath she said to her mother: “This wedding-garland would please me indeed if father Peter could lead me to the church.

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**Who acts:** dame, wedding garland, father Peter · **What happens:** try, say, please, lead · **To what, where:** bridal wreath, mother, Friedlin, church · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dame, wedding garland, father Peter), 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:pg2435:17:15
# text = As Lucia was trying on her bridal wreath she said to her mother: “This wedding-garland would please me indeed if father Peter could lead me to the church.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · progressive |  |  |  | dame's bridal wreath |  | as Lucia | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dame | dame's bridal wreath *not said here* | dame's mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wreath=Topic to mother=Recipient |
| 3 | **please** *in a quote* | would | this wedding garland | Friedlin |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lead** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | father Peter | Friedlin |  | the church |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to church=Destination |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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