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title: But the princess, like many other girls, was restless, and preferred… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the princess, like many other girls, was restless, and preferred to wander about the garden, rather than rest on a pile of soft cushions. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 135

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But the princess, like many other girls, was restless, and preferred to wander about the garden, rather than rest on a pile of soft cushions.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, prefer, wander · **To what, where:** rest

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg3282:33:135
# text = But the princess, like many other girls, was restless, and preferred to wander about the garden, rather than rest on a pile of soft cushions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	23	cc	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the princess and many other girls |  |  |  |  | restless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prefer** | participle | the princess and many other girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the princess and many other girls *not said here* | rest on a pile of soft cushions |  |  |  | about the garden | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory |

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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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