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title: The prince could not refrain from looking at her, so fair was she, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince could not refrain from looking at her, so fair was she, and now she seemed fairer than ever. Who acts: prince, mare. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, 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 2, sentence 105

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The prince could not refrain from looking at her, so fair was she, and now she seemed fairer than ever.

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**Who acts:** prince, mare · **What happens:** not refrain, look, be, seem · **To what, where:** mare

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, mare), 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:pg29672:26:105
# text = The prince could not refrain from looking at her, so fair was she, and now she seemed fairer than ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **refrain** | could | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at mare | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | mare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | mare |  |  |  | now | fair *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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:** «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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