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title: “Forget the maiden,” said the King, “and take another bride”; but th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Forget the maiden,” said the King, “and take another bride”; but the Prince said he could never love another. Who acts: King, Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 63

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“Forget the maiden,” said the King, “and take another bride”; but the Prince said he could never love another.

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**Who acts:** King, Prince · **What happens:** forget, say, take, not love · **To what, where:** maiden, bride, another · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Prince), 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:pg503:26:63
# text = “Forget the maiden,” said the King, “and take another bride”; but the Prince said he could never love another.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | another bride |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **love** | could | King | another |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus |

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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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