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title: The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels some hope that things might not be bad for him after all, and he was yet more encouraged when he thought of the words engraver on the horn, though the last line still seemed too good to be true. Who acts: princess, way, some, things.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 16

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The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels some hope that things might not be bad for him after all, and he was yet more encouraged when he thought of the words engraver on the horn, though the last line still seemed too good to be true.

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**Who acts:** princess, way, some, things, last line · **What happens:** smile, say, give, hope, not be, be · **To what, where:** this, Niels, engraver · **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 (princess, way, some, things), 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:pg2435:31:16
# text = The way in which the princess smiled when she said this gave Niels some hope that things might not be bad for him after all, and he was yet more encouraged when he thought of the words engraver on the horn, though the last line still seemed too good to be true.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
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	7	advcl	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	encouraged	encouraged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	engraver	engraver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	still	still	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
50	too	too	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	cop	_	_
54	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | in the way | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | past | the way |  | Niels |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hope** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **not** **is** | might | things |  |  |  | after all | for way; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | way |  |  |  | yet | encouraged *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | way | engraver on the horn |  |  |  | of the words | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **seem** | past | the last line |  |  |  | still | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | to-infinitive | the last line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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:** «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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