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title: “This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a passing fancy, before I was lucky enough to meet you, has affected me a little, I admit, but you are so much more to me than she is that I would rather die than leave you.” Who acts: sight, you, Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fai
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 91

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“This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a passing fancy, before I was lucky enough to meet you, has affected me a little, I admit, but you are so much more to me than she is that I would rather die than leave you.”

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**Who acts:** sight, you, Princess · **What happens:** have, be, meet, affect, admit, die · **To what, where:** passing fancy, you, chance meeting, sight

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (sight, you, Princess), 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:pg503:6:91
# text = “This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a passing fancy, before I was lucky enough to meet you, has affected me a little, I admit, but you are so much more to me than she is that I would rather die than leave you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	admit	admit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	much	much	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
52	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
53	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | sight | a passing fancy |  |  |  | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | sight |  |  |  |  | enough, lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sight *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **affect** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this chance meeting with a unhappy princess for this chance meeting with a unhappy princess for this chance meeting |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  | sight |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **die** *in a quote* | would | sight |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | sight *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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