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title: Her father was in despair, and had had pictures painted of the hands… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father was in despair, and had had pictures painted of the handsomest princes of all the courts in the world, in the hope that she might fall in love with one of them; but it was no use; the princess would not even allow the pictures to be brought into her room. Who acts: father, despair, body, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 47

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Her father was in despair, and had had pictures painted of the handsomest princes of all the courts in the world, in the hope that she might fall in love with one of them; but it was no use; the princess would not even allow the pictures to be brought into her room.

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**Who acts:** father, despair, body, love, princess · **What happens:** be, have, paint, fall, not allow, bring · **To what, where:** despair, pictures, hope, love, use, room

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, despair, body, love), 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:pg3282:18:47
# text = Her father was in despair, and had had pictures painted of the handsomest princes of all the courts in the world, in the hope that she might fall in love with one of them; but it was no use; the princess would not even allow the pictures to be brought into her room.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
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	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | body's father |  |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | despair *not said here* | pictures |  | the hope |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | pictures *not said here* |  |  |  | of the handsomest princes of all courts in the world | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | might | body | the hope *not said here* |  | love |  | with one of courts | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hope=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | past | love | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **allow** | would | the princess | the pictures |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive | the princess *not said here* |  |  | body's room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=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 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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