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title: The Princess Lina did not become a gardener’s wife; on the contrary,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess Lina did not become a gardener’s wife; on the contrary, it was the Star Gazer who became a Prince: but before the marriage ceremony the Princess insisted that her lover should tell her how he came to discover the secret. Who acts: Princess Lina, choice, Star, Princess. A sentence of «Th
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 200

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The Princess Lina did not become a gardener’s wife; on the contrary, it was the Star Gazer who became a Prince: but before the marriage ceremony the Princess insisted that her lover should tell her how he came to discover the secret.

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**Who acts:** Princess Lina, choice, Star, Princess, lover · **What happens:** not become, be, become, insist, tell, come · **To what, where:** wife, Star, Lina, secret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Lina, choice, Star, 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:pg540:2:200
# text = The Princess Lina did not become a gardener’s wife; on the contrary, it was the Star Gazer who became a Prince: but before the marriage ceremony the Princess insisted that her lover should tell her how he came to discover the secret.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Lina	Lina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **become** | past · do-support | the Princess Lina | a gardener's wife |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | choice | the Star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | the Star |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | the Princess |  |  |  | before the marriage ceremony |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | Lina's lover |  | Lina |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** | past | lover |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **discover** | to-infinitive | lover *not said here* | the secret |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |

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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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