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title: ‘I see you do not think the Prince handsome, but look at yourself, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I see you do not think the Prince handsome, but look at yourself, and see if you have any right to complain about that.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 26

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‘I see you do not think the Prince handsome, but look at yourself, and see if you have any right to complain about that.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** see, not think, look, have, complain · **To what, where:** Prince handsome, right · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (I, you), 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:pg540:34:26
# text = ‘I see you do not think the Prince handsome, but look at yourself, and see if you have any right to complain about that.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	SYM	NFP	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you | the Prince handsome |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at yourself | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at yourself=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | any right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 6 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | any right *not said here* |  |  |  | about any right | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=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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