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title: “Yes, I will attend to that,” said the Prince, and stayed sitting wh… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, I will attend to that,” said the Prince, and stayed sitting where he was the whole day, for it was soon settled between them that they would marry each other, he and the King’s daughter; so the first day of his service with the giant did not seem long to him. Who acts: Prince, people, giant. A
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 31

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“Yes, I will attend to that,” said the Prince, and stayed sitting where he was the whole day, for it was soon settled between them that they would marry each other, he and the King’s daughter; so the first day of his service with the giant did not seem long to him.

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**Who acts:** Prince, people, giant · **What happens:** attend, say, stay, sit, be, settle · **To what, where:** whole day, pitchforksful, each, service · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (Prince, people, giant), 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:pg503:17:31
# text = “Yes, I will attend to that,” said the Prince, and stayed sitting where he was the whole day, for it was soon settled between them that they would marry each other, he and the King’s daughter; so the first day of his service with the giant did not seem long to him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	35	obj	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	appos	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	49	amod	_	_
49	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	nsubj	_	_
56	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	acl	_	_
59	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	xcomp	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** *in a quote* | future | the Prince *= prince* |  |  |  |  | to that | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to that=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Prince | the whole day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **settle** | past · passive |  | pitchforksful |  |  |  | between people; soon *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 7 | **marry** | would | people | each |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | the giant | Prince's service *not said here* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Attribute |
| 9 | **service** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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 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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