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title: ‘You are a great Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have n… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You are a great Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have nothing to offer you but black bread and radishes, which will not suit you at all. Who acts: You, I. 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 226

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‘You are a great Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have nothing to offer you but black bread and radishes, which will not suit you at all.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** be, accustom, fare, have, offer, not suit · **To what, where:** great Princess, nothing, you, all

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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 (You, I), 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:pg540:11:226
# text = ‘You are a great Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have nothing to offer you but black bread and radishes, which will not suit you at all.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	daintily	daintily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	radishes	radish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | You | a great Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accustom** | participle |  | a great Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fare** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | daintily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **offer** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **suit** | future |  | you |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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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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