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title: Now Diamantina, for that was her name, did not reach her fifteenth b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Diamantina, for that was her name, did not reach her fifteenth birthday without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven; but be the suitor who he might, the king always said him nay. Who acts: that, Diamantina, suitor. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 16

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Now Diamantina, for that was her name, did not reach her fifteenth birthday without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven; but be the suitor who he might, the king always said him nay.

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**Who acts:** that, Diamantina, suitor · **What happens:** be, not reach, say · **To what, where:** fifteenth birthday, suitor, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Diamantina, suitor), 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:pg3027:37:16
# text = Now Diamantina, for that was her name, did not reach her fifteenth birthday without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven; but be the suitor who he might, the king always said him nay.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Diamantina	Diamantina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	proposals	proposal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for Diamantina's name | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **reach** | past · do-support | Diamantina | Diamantina's fifteenth birthday |  |  |  | without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | the suitor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the suitor | king |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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