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title: "Pray tell me," said the prince, "who is that princess of whom you h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pray tell me," said the prince, "who is that princess of whom you have been talking! and where lies the garden of paradise?" Who acts: Pray, prince, you, garden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 122

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"Pray tell me," said the prince, "who is that princess of whom you have been talking! and where lies the garden of paradise?"

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**Who acts:** Pray, prince, you, garden · **What happens:** tell, say, be, talk, lie · **To what, where:** prince, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, prince, you, garden), 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:pg27200:140:122
# text = "Pray tell me," said the prince, "who is that princess of whom you have been talking! and where lies the garden of paradise?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
25	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Pray |  | the prince *= prince* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | the garden of paradise |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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