--- title: “Gracious prince,” said the maidens, “do ask Lucky Luck how it happe… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Gracious prince,” said the maidens, “do ask Lucky Luck how it happens that here we are over thirty years old and no lover has come to woo us, though we are good, pretty, and very industrious.” Who acts: Gracious prince, it, we, lover. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gracious prince, it, we, lover), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:2:75 # text = “Gracious prince,” said the maidens, “do ask Lucky Luck how it happens that here we are over thirty years old and no lover has come to woo us, though we are good, pretty, and very industrious.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 13 Lucky Lucky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Luck Luck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 19 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 over over ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 woo woo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 though though SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 industrious industrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gracious prince | the maidens | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | Lucky Luck | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent luck=Recipient | | 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | here | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | no lover | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **woo** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no lover *not said here* | us | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | | we *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **be** *in a quote* | | we *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/76/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/)