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title: Such another splendid knight is not to be found on earth!” said the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Such another splendid knight is not to be found on earth!” said the brothers. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 98

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Such another splendid knight is not to be found on earth!” said the brothers.

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**What happens:** not be, say · **To what, where:** splendid knight, earth, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:48:98
# text = Such another splendid knight is not to be found on earth!” said the brothers.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	mark	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present · passive |  | another splendid knight |  | earth |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the brothers |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |

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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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