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title: But it was the youngest daughter of all that the prince's fancy fed… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was the youngest daughter of all that the prince's fancy fed upon more than on any of the others. Who acts: Vast, fancy, prince. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 108

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But it was the youngest daughter of all that the prince's fancy fed upon more than on any of the others.

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**Who acts:** Vast, fancy, prince · **What happens:** be, feed, fancy · **To what, where:** youngest daughter

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vast, fancy, 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:pg29672:25:108
# text = But it was the youngest daughter of all that the prince's fancy fed upon more than on any of the others.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Vast | the youngest daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | participle | the prince's fancy |  |  |  |  | of that; upon any | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fancy** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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