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title: The Prince was brought up with great care; and, as soon as he could… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince was brought up with great care; and, as soon as he could speak, they told him all sorts of dreadful stories about people who had short noses. Who acts: Prince, ladies, people. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its depend
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 22

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The Prince was brought up with great care; and, as soon as he could speak, they told him all sorts of dreadful stories about people who had short noses.

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**Who acts:** Prince, ladies, people · **What happens:** bring up, speak, tell, have, sort · **To what, where:** Prince, sorts, short noses, dreadful stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, ladies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:174`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:3:22
# text = The Prince was brought up with great care; and, as soon as he could speak, they told him all sorts of dreadful stories about people who had short noses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | with great care | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with care=Instrument |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | ladies *= lady* | all sorts of dreadful stories about people | Prince |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sort=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | people | short noses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | dreadful stories about people |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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