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title: And the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her portrait that they went without a murmur. Who acts: the, Rosette, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 102

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And the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her portrait that they went without a murmur.

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**Who acts:** the, Rosette, Princess · **What happens:** be, go, portray

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (the, Rosette, 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:pg540:11:102
# text = And the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her portrait that they went without a murmur.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	ccomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Rosette |  |  |  |  | than Rosette's portrait; far, pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | without a murmur | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **portray** |  | Rosette |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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