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title: The Princess found Charming such an agreeable companion that she som… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess found Charming such an agreeable companion that she sometimes said to him: “Why didn’t we stay where we were? Who acts: Princess, Charming, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 171

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The Princess found Charming such an agreeable companion that she sometimes said to him: “Why didn’t we stay where we were?

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**Who acts:** Princess, Charming, we · **What happens:** find, say, not stay, be · **To what, where:** Charming, Beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Charming, we), 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:pg503:28:171
# text = The Princess found Charming such an agreeable companion that she sometimes said to him: “Why didn’t we stay where we were?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Princess | Charming |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent charming=Theme companion=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charming |  | Beauty |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | past · do-support | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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