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title: 'How can I find the Princess Bella-Flor when I have never even seen… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'How can I find the Princess Bella-Flor when I have never even seen her?' thought he. ' Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 116

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'How can I find the Princess Bella-Flor when I have never even seen her?' thought he. '

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, not see, think · **To what, where:** Bella Flor, Princess, Flor

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3027:31:116
# text = 'How can I find the Princess Bella-Flor when I have never even seen her?' thought he. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Flor	Flor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | can | I | the Bella Flor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flor=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | I | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I *not said here* | Flor |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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:** «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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