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title: At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely, and determi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely, and determined that Fanfaronade and nobody else would she marry. Who acts: Princess, Fanfaronade. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 55

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At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely, and determined that Fanfaronade and nobody else would she marry.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Fanfaronade · **What happens:** lose, determine, marry, sight · **To what, where:** wits, sight, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, Fanfaronade), 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:pg540:3:55
# text = At the sight of him the Princess lost her wits entirely, and determined that Fanfaronade and nobody else would she marry.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	conj	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the Princess | Princess's wits |  | the sight of horse |  | entirely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **determine** | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | would | Fanfaronade |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | horse |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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