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title: He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth, and began to hope that he might at last win back her favor. Who acts: prince, white, Truth. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 145

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He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth, and began to hope that he might at last win back her favor.

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**Who acts:** prince, white, Truth · **What happens:** remember, be, begin, hope, favor · **To what, where:** favorite color, favor, last win · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, white, Truth), 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:pg503:39:145
# text = He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth, and began to hope that he might at last win back her favor.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that white | the favorite color |  |  |  | of the Fairy Truth | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hope** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | Truth's favor |  | last win |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **favor** |  | Truth |  |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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