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title: But the Princess thought so much of herself that she did not conside… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Princess thought so much of herself that she did not consider any one of her lovers clever or handsome enough for her; and her mother, who was getting really angry at her determination not to be married, began to wish that she had not allowed her to have her own way so much. Who acts: Prince
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 24

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But the Princess thought so much of herself that she did not consider any one of her lovers clever or handsome enough for her; and her mother, who was getting really angry at her determination not to be married, began to wish that she had not allowed her to have her own way so much.

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**Who acts:** Princess, mother, queen · **What happens:** think, not consider, get, not marry, begin, wish · **To what, where:** much, one, mother, queen, own way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, mother, queen), 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:pg503:5:24
# text = But the Princess thought so much of herself that she did not consider any one of her lovers clever or handsome enough for her; and her mother, who was getting really angry at her determination not to be married, began to wish that she had not allowed her to have her own way so much.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	parataxis	_	_
33	really	really	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
43	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	ccomp	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	iobj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	much	much	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Princess | much |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **consider** | past · do-support | Princess | any one of Princess's lovers |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute |
| 3 | **get** | past · progressive | queen's mother |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | queen's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **begin** | past | queen's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **wish** | to-infinitive | queen's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **allow** | past · perfect · passive |  | mother | queen |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | queen's own way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 9 | **determine** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=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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