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title: For a long time the girl turned a deaf ear to all their prayers; but… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time the girl turned a deaf ear to all their prayers; but at length a young prince of rare gifts touched her heart, and though the king had left her free to choose what husband she would, he had secretly hoped that out of all the wooers this one might be his son-in-law. Who acts: girl, yo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 34

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For a long time the girl turned a deaf ear to all their prayers; but at length a young prince of rare gifts touched her heart, and though the king had left her free to choose what husband she would, he had secretly hoped that out of all the wooers this one might be his son-in-law.

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**Who acts:** girl, young prince, king, one, countries · **What happens:** turn, touch, leave, choose, hope, be · **To what, where:** deaf ear, prayers, heart, length, that, wooers

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, young prince, king, one), 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:pg3027:29:34
# text = For a long time the girl turned a deaf ear to all their prayers; but at length a young prince of rare gifts touched her heart, and though the king had left her free to choose what husband she would, he had secretly hoped that out of all the wooers this one might be his son-in-law.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
40	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	obj	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	53	det:predet	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	wooers	wooer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
54	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	det	_	_
55	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
56	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	cop	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
59	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the girl | a deaf ear |  | countries's prayers | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to prayer=Trajectory |
| 2 | **touch** | past | a young prince of rare gifts | girl's heart |  | length |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | the king |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **hope** | past · perfect | king | that |  | all wooers |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | might | this one | all wooers *not said here* |  | king's law |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pray** |  | countries *= country* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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:** «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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