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title: “Prince,” answered the Fairy, “will you not pledge your faith to me,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Prince,” answered the Fairy, “will you not pledge your faith to me, as well as I give mine to you?” Who acts: Prince, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 61

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“Prince,” answered the Fairy, “will you not pledge your faith to me, as well as I give mine to you?”

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**Who acts:** Prince, Fairy · **What happens:** answer, not pledge, give · **To what, where:** Fairy, faith, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy), 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:pg503:50:61
# text = “Prince,” answered the Fairy, “will you not pledge your faith to me, as well as I give mine to you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	pledge	pledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	23	cc	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | Prince |  | the Fairy |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pledge** *in a quote* | future | the Fairy *= fairy* | your faith | Prince |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent faith=Theme to i=Goal |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present | Prince |  | Prince |  |  | to the Fairy *= fairy* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent my=Theme to you=Recipient |

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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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