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title: ‘Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in spite of meeting her lover whenever she pleases.’ Who acts: pretty maiden, Tephany, spite. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 75

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‘Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in spite of meeting her lover whenever she pleases.’

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**Who acts:** pretty maiden, Tephany, spite · **What happens:** look, do, meet, please · **To what, where:** lover

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty maiden, Tephany, spite), 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:pg3454:32:75
# text = ‘Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in spite of meeting her lover whenever she pleases.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl:relcl	_	_
9	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | my pretty maiden |  |  |  |  | in spite; happy, hardly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Tephany |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | spite *not said here* | Tephany's lover |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **please** | present | Tephany |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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