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title: Every one Prince alone excepted, thought she was a clever beast; but… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one Prince alone excepted, thought she was a clever beast; but Prince barked at her, for he had now got a rival. Who acts: one Prince, cow, Prince. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 13

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Every one Prince alone excepted, thought she was a clever beast; but Prince barked at her, for he had now got a rival.

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**Who acts:** one Prince, cow, Prince · **What happens:** except, think, be, bark, get · **To what, where:** clever beast, rival · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one Prince, cow, 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:pg3454:24:13
# text = Every one Prince alone excepted, thought she was a clever beast; but Prince barked at her, for he had now got a rival.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	excepted	except	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | past | every one Prince |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | every one Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | cow | a clever beast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bark** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | at cow | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **get** | past · perfect | Prince | a rival |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rival=Stimulus |

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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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