--- title: Then the Fairy answered that the Princess would be as pretty, and cl… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Fairy answered that the Princess would be as pretty, and clever, and well brought up as it was possible to be, and the old King growled to the Queen that it was lucky for her that it was so, as they would certainly have been hanged if it were otherwise. Who acts: Fairy, Princess, child, old --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 37 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 37 Then the Fairy answered that the Princess would be as pretty, and clever, and well brought up as it was possible to be, and the old King growled to the Queen that it was lucky for her that it was so, as they would certainly have been hanged if it were otherwise. **Who acts:** Fairy, Princess, child, old King · **What happens:** answer, be, bring up, growl, hange · **To what, where:** Queen, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Princess, child, old King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:22:37 # text = Then the Fairy answered that the Princess would be as pretty, and clever, and well brought up as it was possible to be, and the old King growled to the Queen that it was lucky for her that it was so, as they would certainly have been hanged if it were otherwise. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 growled growl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 47 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 49 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 50 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux _ _ 51 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 hanged hange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 53 if if SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 52 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy | | | | then | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | would | the Princess | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bring up** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | child | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **growl** | past | the old King | | the Queen | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | past | child | | | | | for Princess; lucky *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | child | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **hange** | would · perfect · passive | | King | | | | certainly *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | child | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/38/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)