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title: When Rosette was fifteen years old the Great Prince went to the King… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Rosette was fifteen years old the Great Prince went to the King and asked if it would not soon be time for her to be married, and the Little Prince put the same question to the Queen. Who acts: Rosette, Great Prince, smile, Little Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princ
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 37

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When Rosette was fifteen years old the Great Prince went to the King and asked if it would not soon be time for her to be married, and the Little Prince put the same question to the Queen.

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**Who acts:** Rosette, Great Prince, smile, Little Prince · **What happens:** be, go, ask, not be, marry, put · **To what, where:** time, Rosette, same question

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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 (Rosette, Great Prince, smile, Little Prince), 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:pg540:11:37
# text = When Rosette was fifteen years old the Great Prince went to the King and asked if it would not soon be time for her to be married, and the Little Prince put the same question to the Queen.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rosette |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Great Prince |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Great Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | smile | time |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive |  | Rosette |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **put** | past | the Little Prince | the same question |  |  |  | to the Queen | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |

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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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