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title: The fame of the princess’s beauty had spread far and wide, and there… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fame of the princess’s beauty had spread far and wide, and there was no lack of princes who wished to try their fortune. Who acts: lack, princes. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 26

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The fame of the princess’s beauty had spread far and wide, and there was no lack of princes who wished to try their fortune.

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**Who acts:** lack, princes · **What happens:** spread, be, wish, try, lack · **To what, where:** fame, fortune, princes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lack, princes), 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:pg3282:25:26
# text = The fame of the princess’s beauty had spread far and wide, and there was no lack of princes who wished to try their fortune.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fame of the princess's beauty |  |  |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no lack of princes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | past | princes |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | princes *not said here* | windows's fortune |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lack** |  |  | princes |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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