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title: “Lovely Blanchette,” said the Prince, “how can I thank you properly… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lovely Blanchette,” said the Prince, “how can I thank you properly for all your kindness to me? Who acts: Lovely Blanchette. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 15

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“Lovely Blanchette,” said the Prince, “how can I thank you properly for all your kindness to me?

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**Who acts:** Lovely Blanchette · **What happens:** say, thank · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lovely Blanchette), 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:pg503:24:15
# text = “Lovely Blanchette,” said the Prince, “how can I thank you properly for all your kindness to me?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Lovely Blanchette |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | can | Lovely Blanchette *= blanchette* |  | you |  |  | for your kindness to me; properly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute |

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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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