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title: Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follie… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follies and misdeeds, and promised to love him as long as she lived. Who acts: Celia, prince. 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 158

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Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follies and misdeeds, and promised to love him as long as she lived.

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**Who acts:** Celia, prince · **What happens:** be, hear, promise, love, live · **To what, where:** sorry, prince

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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 (Celia, 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:pg503:39:158
# text = Celia was delighted to hear how sorry he was for all his past follies and misdeeds, and promised to love him as long as she lived.
1	Celia	Celia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	follies	folly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Celia |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Celia *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sorry=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | for prince's past follies and misdeeds | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Celia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **love** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Celia *not said here* | prince |  |  |  | long *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **live** | past | Celia |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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