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title: And first of all they had a portrait made of the Princess, which was… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And first of all they had a portrait made of the Princess, which was so like her that you really would not have been surprised if it had spoken to you. Who acts: King, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 63

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And first of all they had a portrait made of the Princess, which was so like her that you really would not have been surprised if it had spoken to you.

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**Who acts:** King, Princess · **What happens:** have, make, be, not surprise, speak · **To what, where:** portrait, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg540:11:63
# text = And first of all they had a portrait made of the Princess, which was so like her that you really would not have been surprised if it had spoken to you.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	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 | **have** | past | King | a portrait |  |  |  | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a portrait *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  | like sister | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **surprise** | would · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | portrait | you |  |  |  | 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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