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title: ‘Ah, Princess!’ said he, ‘I have never before dared to present mysel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, Princess!’ said he, ‘I have never before dared to present myself to you, but now the King’s marriage threatens you with so many dangers that I have resolved to tell you at once how much I love you already, and I trust that in time I may win your regard. Who acts: Princess, I, marriage, King. A 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 65

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‘Ah, Princess!’ said he, ‘I have never before dared to present myself to you, but now the King’s marriage threatens you with so many dangers that I have resolved to tell you at once how much I love you already, and I trust that in time I may win your regard.

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**Who acts:** Princess, I, marriage, King, your · **What happens:** say, dare, present, threaten, resolve, tell · **To what, where:** myself, you, many dangers, much, that, regard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I, marriage, King), 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:pg540:23:65
# text = ‘Ah, Princess!’ said he, ‘I have never before dared to present myself to you, but now the King’s marriage threatens you with so many dangers that I have resolved to tell you at once how much I love you already, and I trust that in time I may win your regard.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
43	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
44	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	already	already	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	parataxis	_	_
59	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dare** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself | you |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 4 | **threaten** | present | the King's marriage | you |  |  | now | with many dangers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 5 | **resolve** | present · perfect · passive |  | many dangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **love** | present | I | you |  | much |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 8 | **trust** | present | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 9 | **win** | may | I | your regard |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality |
| 10 | **marry** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **regard** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom regard «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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