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title: Prince after prince had offered himself, but the young queen would h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 10

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Prince after prince had offered himself, but the young queen would have nothing to say to any of them, and at last told her ministers that if she was to have a husband at all she must choose him for herself, as she would certainly not marry any of those whom they had selected for her.

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**Who acts:** young queen, queen, subjects · **What happens:** offer, have, say, tell, choose, not marry · **To what, where:** Prince, nothing, any, ministers, last, husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young queen, queen, subjects), 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:pg3282:13:10
# text = Prince after prince had offered himself, but the young queen would have nothing to say to any of them, and at last told her ministers that if she was to have a husband at all she must choose him for herself, as she would certainly not marry any of those whom they had selected for her.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	iobj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
51	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	51	conj	_	_
54	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	obj	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · perfect · passive |  | Prince after prince | Prince |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal himself=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | would | the young queen | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the young queen *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | any |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to any=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* |  | queen's ministers | last |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | queen | a husband |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 6 | **choose** | must | queen | husband |  |  |  | for queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for herself=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **not** **marry** | would | queen | any |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 8 | **select** | past · perfect | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  | for queen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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