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title: Her father, however, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father, however, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age she certainly ought to like pretty presents, he told her to choose something. Who acts: father, Beauty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 24

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Her father, however, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age she certainly ought to like pretty presents, he told her to choose something.

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**Who acts:** father, Beauty · **What happens:** be, think, like, tell, choose · **To what, where:** presents, age, Beauty, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Beauty), 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:pg503:14:24
# text = Her father, however, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age she certainly ought to like pretty presents, he told her to choose something.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Beauty's father |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | ought | Beauty | presents |  |  | at Beauty's age | certainly, pretty *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | father |  | Beauty |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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