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title: “I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the rich… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose whichever you like for him.” Who acts: Fairy, you. 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 18

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“I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose whichever you like for him.”

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**Who acts:** Fairy, you · **What happens:** make, choose, like · **To what, where:** son

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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 (Fairy, you), 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:pg503:39:18
# text = “I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose whichever you like for him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	whichever	whichever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | can | the Fairy *= fairy* | your son |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Product |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Fairy *= fairy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | for doubt; whichever *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute |

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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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