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title: ‘Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince Peerless, since that is the only title which will suit you now.’ Who acts: you, that, only title. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 87

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‘Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince Peerless, since that is the only title which will suit you now.’

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**Who acts:** you, that, only title · **What happens:** accomplish, be, take, suit, name · **To what, where:** name, only title, you, Prince

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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 (you, that, only title), 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:pg540:34:87
# text = ‘Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince Peerless, since that is the only title which will suit you now.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | the name of Prince |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | the only title |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suit** | future | the only title | you |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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