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title: 'My husband will be home very soon,' answered the princess--who, tho… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'My husband will be home very soon,' answered the princess--who, though nearly as much frightened as her ladies, felt that she must set them a good example. ' Who acts: husband, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 99

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'My husband will be home very soon,' answered the princess--who, though nearly as much frightened as her ladies, felt that she must set them a good example. '

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**Who acts:** husband, princess · **What happens:** be, answer, frighten, feel, set · **To what, where:** princess, ladies

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, princess), 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:pg3027:14:99
# text = 'My husband will be home very soon,' answered the princess--who, though nearly as much frightened as her ladies, felt that she must set them a good example. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advcl	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	though	though	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | My husband |  |  |  |  | home, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as princess's ladies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **feel** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | though *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set** | must | princess | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme example=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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