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title: I could only bring Prince Pink to the place where you were being bro… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I could only bring Prince Pink to the place where you were being brought up, hoping that when you grew up he might love you, and by your care be restored to his natural form. Who acts: I, you, way, care. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its depen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 109

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I could only bring Prince Pink to the place where you were being brought up, hoping that when you grew up he might love you, and by your care be restored to his natural form.

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**Who acts:** I, you, way, care, your · **What happens:** bring, bring up, hope, grow up, love, restore · **To what, where:** Prince Pink, place, you, natural form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, way, care), 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:pg503:22:109
# text = I could only bring Prince Pink to the place where you were being brought up, hoping that when you grew up he might love you, and by your care be restored to his natural form.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Pink	Pink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | could | I | Prince Pink |  | the place |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pink=Theme to place=Destination |
| 2 | **bring up** | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **grow up** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | might | way | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 6 | **restore** | infinitive · passive | your care |  | way's natural form |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to form=Recipient |
| 7 | **care** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **form** |  | way |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «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 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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