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title: She shut the Dear Little Princess up in a palace of crystal, and put… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She shut the Dear Little Princess up in a palace of crystal, and put this palace down where the Prince would not fail to find it. Who acts: fairy, Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 98

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She shut the Dear Little Princess up in a palace of crystal, and put this palace down where the Prince would not fail to find it.

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**Who acts:** fairy, Prince · **What happens:** shut up, put down, not fail, find · **To what, where:** Dear Little Princess, palace

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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 (fairy, Prince), 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:pg503:3:98
# text = She shut the Dear Little Princess up in a palace of crystal, and put this palace down where the Prince would not fail to find it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | past | fairy | the Dear Little Princess |  | a palace of crystal |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 2 | **put down** | infinitive | fairy *not said here* | this palace |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent palace=Goal |
| 3 | **not** **fail** | would | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | palace |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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