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title: Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy if he offered to make her a great queen, but she said fearlessly: Who acts: Prince Darling, Celia, Darling. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 59

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Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy if he offered to make her a great queen, but she said fearlessly:

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**Who acts:** Prince Darling, Celia, Darling · **What happens:** fancy, think, offer, make, say · **To what, where:** Celia, great queen · **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 Darling, Celia, Darling), 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:pg503:39:59
# text = Prince Darling fancied that Celia would think herself only too happy if he offered to make her a great queen, but she said fearlessly:
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Celia	Celia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | Prince Darling |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | would | Celia | Celia |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Darling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* | a great queen | Celia |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary queen=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Celia |  |  |  |  | fearlessly *property* | 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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