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title: They loved their sister dearly, for she was the sweetest, prettiest… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They loved their sister dearly, for she was the sweetest, prettiest princess who was ever seen, and the least little smile from her was worth more than a hundred pieces of gold. Who acts: brothers, Queen, least little smile. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with i
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 36

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They loved their sister dearly, for she was the sweetest, prettiest princess who was ever seen, and the least little smile from her was worth more than a hundred pieces of gold.

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**Who acts:** brothers, Queen, least little smile · **What happens:** love, be, see · **To what, where:** sister, sweetest prettiest princess

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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 (brothers, Queen, least little smile), 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:pg540:11:36
# text = They loved their sister dearly, for she was the sweetest, prettiest princess who was ever seen, and the least little smile from her was worth more than a hundred pieces of gold.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | brothers *= brother* | brothers's sister |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | for the sweetest prettiest princess | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | the sweetest prettiest princess |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the least little smile from Queen |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | 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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