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title: “Oh, if I were only a prince, and could go in such a carriage and ha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, if I were only a prince, and could go in such a carriage and have a golden umbrella held over me, how happy I should be!” Who acts: stone cutter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 11

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“Oh, if I were only a prince, and could go in such a carriage and have a golden umbrella held over me, how happy I should be!”

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**Who acts:** stone cutter · **What happens:** be, go, have, hold · **To what, where:** prince, carriage, golden umbrella · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone cutter), 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:pg2435:20:11
# text = “Oh, if I were only a prince, and could go in such a carriage and have a golden umbrella held over me, how happy I should be!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the stone cutter *= cutter* | a prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | could |  |  |  | such carriage |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in carriage=Location |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a golden umbrella |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | participle |  | a golden umbrella *not said here* |  |  |  | over the stone cutter *= cutter* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Location |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | should | the stone cutter *= cutter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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