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title: “See what else he has about him,” said the princess to the steward,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “See what else he has about him,” said the princess to the steward, and Niels had to submit to be searched: out of one pocket came a gold-embroidered slipper, and out of another the half of a gold-hemmed handkerchief. Who acts: Niels, princess, embroidered slipper. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy B
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 10

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“See what else he has about him,” said the princess to the steward, and Niels had to submit to be searched: out of one pocket came a gold-embroidered slipper, and out of another the half of a gold-hemmed handkerchief.

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**Who acts:** Niels, princess, embroidered slipper · **What happens:** see, have, say, submit, search, come · **To what, where:** one pocket · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, princess, embroidered slipper), 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:pg2435:31:10
# text = “See what else he has about him,” said the princess to the steward, and Niels had to submit to be searched: out of one pocket came a gold-embroidered slipper, and out of another the half of a gold-hemmed handkerchief.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	hemmed	hem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	amod	_	_
49	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Niels |  |  |  |  | about farmer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | Niels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **submit** | to-infinitive | Niels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **search** | to-infinitive · passive | Niels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |
| 7 | **come** | past | a embroidered slipper |  |  | one pocket |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **hem** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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