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title: “Charming,” said the Princess, “the name promises well; I have no do… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Charming,” said the Princess, “the name promises well; I have no doubt that he is good looking and fascinates everybody.” Who acts: Charming, Princess, name. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 69

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“Charming,” said the Princess, “the name promises well; I have no doubt that he is good looking and fascinates everybody.”

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**Who acts:** Charming, Princess, name · **What happens:** say, promise, have, look, fascinate · **To what, where:** doubt, everybody · **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 (Charming, Princess, name), 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:pg503:28:69
# text = “Charming,” said the Princess, “the name promises well; I have no doubt that he is good looking and fascinates everybody.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fascinates	fascinate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charming |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | the Princess |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Charming | no doubt |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present · progressive | name | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doubt=Attribute |
| 5 | **fascinate** *in a quote* | present | Charming *not said here* | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer |

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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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