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title: His room was hung with pictures, all of people with very large noses… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His room was hung with pictures, all of people with very large noses; and the Prince grew up so convinced that a long nose was a great beauty, that he would not on any account have had his own a single inch shorter! Who acts: Prince, long nose. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Pri
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 26

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His room was hung with pictures, all of people with very large noses; and the Prince grew up so convinced that a long nose was a great beauty, that he would not on any account have had his own a single inch shorter!

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**Who acts:** Prince, long nose · **What happens:** hang, grow up, be, have · **To what, where:** room, great beauty, own single inch

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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, long nose), 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:pg503:3:26
# text = His room was hung with pictures, all of people with very large noses; and the Prince grew up so convinced that a long nose was a great beauty, that he would not on any account have had his own a single inch shorter!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · passive |  | Prince's room |  |  |  | with pictures and all people with large noses | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with picture=Instrument |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a long nose | a great beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | would · perfect | Prince | Prince's own single inch |  |  |  | short *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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