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title: ‘You all heard how the two princess were loth to be married till the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You all heard how the two princess were loth to be married till the youngest would be ready with her crowns and her sweetheart. Who acts: You, two princess, youngest, princess. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61

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‘You all heard how the two princess were loth to be married till the youngest would be ready with her crowns and her sweetheart.

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**Who acts:** You, two princess, youngest, princess · **What happens:** hear, be, marry, crown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, two princess, youngest, 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:pg3454:11:61
# text = ‘You all heard how the two princess were loth to be married till the youngest would be ready with her crowns and her sweetheart.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the two princess |  |  |  |  | loth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | the two princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | would | youngest |  |  |  |  | with princess's crowns and princess's sweetheart; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crown** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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