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title: Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry when he had been naughty, and said: Who acts: prince, bad disposition. 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 51

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Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry when he had been naughty, and said:

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**Who acts:** prince, bad disposition · **What happens:** not be, be, say · **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, bad disposition), 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:pg503:39:51
# text = Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry when he had been naughty, and said:
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | of a bad disposition; naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | sorry, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | prince |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a bad disposition |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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