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title: The youngest one was old enough to be married too, but she was very… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest one was old enough to be married too, but she was very particular, and turned up her nose at all the young princes who had sought her hand. Who acts: youngest one, princess, young princes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its de
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 16

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The youngest one was old enough to be married too, but she was very particular, and turned up her nose at all the young princes who had sought her hand.

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**Who acts:** youngest one, princess, young princes · **What happens:** be, marry, turn up, seek · **To what, where:** nose, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest one, princess, young princes), 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:pg2435:7:16
# text = The youngest one was old enough to be married too, but she was very particular, and turned up her nose at all the young princes who had sought her hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the youngest one |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | the youngest one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | particular *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn up** | past | the youngest one *not said here* | princess's nose |  |  |  | at all young princes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | past · perfect | all young princes | princess's hand |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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