--- title: Everybody was delighted to see her; she was so pretty that they thou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everybody was delighted to see her; she was so pretty that they thought she must be some fairy princess, and the Princes who were there could not take their eyes off her. Who acts: Everybody, Princess, misfortunes, Princes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, Princess, misfortunes, Princes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:31:86 # text = Everybody was delighted to see her; she was so pretty that they thought she must be some fairy princess, and the Princes who were there could not take their eyes off her. 1 Everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 19 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 off off ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Everybody | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Everybody *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | Princess | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | misfortunes *= misfortune* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | must | Princess | some fairy princess | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | the Princes | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **take** | could | the Princes | misfortunes's eyes | | | | off Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off she=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/87/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)