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title: “Not so funny as your own,” said Prince Hyacinth to the Fairy; “but,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not so funny as your own,” said Prince Hyacinth to the Fairy; “but, madam, I beg you to leave the consideration of our noses--such as they are--and to be good enough to give me something to eat, for I am starving, and so is my poor horse.” Who acts: Prince Hyacinth. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Bo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 38

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“Not so funny as your own,” said Prince Hyacinth to the Fairy; “but, madam, I beg you to leave the consideration of our noses--such as they are--and to be good enough to give me something to eat, for I am starving, and so is my poor horse.”

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**Who acts:** Prince Hyacinth · **What happens:** say, beg, leave, be, give, eat · **To what, where:** Fairy, madam, consideration, something, Prince Hyacinth, poor horse · **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 Hyacinth), 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:pg503:3:38
# text = “Not so funny as your own,” said Prince Hyacinth to the Fairy; “but, madam, I beg you to leave the consideration of our noses--such as they are--and to be good enough to give me something to eat, for I am starving, and so is my poor horse.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
42	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	so	so	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	60	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 | Prince Hyacinth |  | the Fairy |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fairy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* | madam | the Fairy *= fairy* |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* *not said here* | the consideration of our noses |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* *not said here* | something | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **starve** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Prince Hyacinth *= hyacinth* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my poor horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **consider** *in a quote* |  |  | our noses |  |  |  |  | nom consideration «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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