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title: Now whenever the princess commanded the prince’s attendance, Dil-ara… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now whenever the princess commanded the prince’s attendance, Dil-aram, of all the girls, paid him attention and waited on him best. Who acts: princess, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 69

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Now whenever the princess commanded the prince’s attendance, Dil-aram, of all the girls, paid him attention and waited on him best.

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**Who acts:** princess, prince · **What happens:** command, pay, wait, attend · **To what, where:** attendance, prince · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, prince), 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:pg3282:2:69
# text = Now whenever the princess commanded the prince’s attendance, Dil-aram, of all the girls, paid him attention and waited on him best.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Dil	Dil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	aram	aram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the princess | the prince's attendance and Dil aram |  |  | now | of all girls; whenever *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent attendance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pay** | past | the princess *not said here* |  | prince |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset |
| 3 | **wait** | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on prince; well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
| 4 | **attend** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom attendance «act transitive»: 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 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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