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title: How ugly she is!’ and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the P… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How ugly she is!’ and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the Princess was bringing with her. Who acts: word, sire, King, 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 178

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How ugly she is!’ and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the Princess was bringing with her.

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**Who acts:** word, sire, King, Princess · **What happens:** be, fancy, refer, bring · **To what, where:** dwarf

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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 (word, sire, King, 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:pg540:11:178
# text = How ugly she is!’ and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the Princess was bringing with her.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | word |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fancy** | past | sire |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **refer** | must | King |  |  |  |  | to some dwarf | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to dwarf=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past · progressive | the Princess | some dwarf *not said here* |  |  |  | with word | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dwarf=Destination |

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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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