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title: But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very unwilling to do what he had promised. Who acts: stepmother, Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 77

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But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very unwilling to do what he had promised.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, Prince · **What happens:** be, look, do, promise

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Prince), 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:pg540:30:77
# text = But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very unwilling to do what he had promised.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loathsome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | unwilling *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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