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title: “The youth who succeeded in climbing to the princess’s window is not… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The youth who succeeded in climbing to the princess’s window is not a prince at all,” answered the young man. Who acts: youth, young man. 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 45

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“The youth who succeeded in climbing to the princess’s window is not a prince at all,” answered the young man.

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**Who acts:** youth, young man · **What happens:** succeed, not be, answer · **To what, where:** climbing, prince, all · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, young man), 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:pg3282:25:45
# text = “The youth who succeeded in climbing to the princess’s window is not a prince at all,” answered the young man.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *in a quote* | past | the youth |  |  | climbing |  | to the princess's window | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in climbing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the youth | a prince |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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