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title: “Have you anywhere seen or heard of the daughter of an emperor, king… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have you anywhere seen or heard of the daughter of an emperor, king, or a prince, who is as clever and as handsome as I am, and who would be worthy to be my wife and the queen of my country?” Who acts: you, prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 49

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“Have you anywhere seen or heard of the daughter of an emperor, king, or a prince, who is as clever and as handsome as I am, and who would be worthy to be my wife and the queen of my country?”

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**Who acts:** you, prince · **What happens:** see, hear, be · **To what, where:** wife

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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:pg2435:4:49
# text = “Have you anywhere seen or heard of the daughter of an emperor, king, or a prince, who is as clever and as handsome as I am, and who would be worthy to be my wife and the queen of my country?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the daughter of a emperor and king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of daughter=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a prince |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | a prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  | worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my wife and the queen of my country |  |  |  |  | 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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