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title: The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and decla… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and declared that to her they owed all their happiness, and then the two Princesses, who had so lately been Mice, came and begged that the Fairy would use her power to release their unhappy friends who were still under the Enchanter’s spell.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 88

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The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and declared that to her they owed all their happiness, and then the two Princesses, who had so lately been Mice, came and begged that the Fairy would use her power to release their unhappy friends who were still under the Enchanter’s spell.

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**Who acts:** Prince, splendour, two Princesses, Fairy, unhappy friends · **What happens:** thank, declare, owe, have, be, come · **To what, where:** two Princesses, Princess, that, happiness, Mice, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, splendour, two Princesses, Fairy), 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:pg540:36:88
# text = The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and declared that to her they owed all their happiness, and then the two Princesses, who had so lately been Mice, came and begged that the Fairy would use her power to release their unhappy friends who were still under the Enchanter’s spell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	appos	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
53	still	still	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
54	under	under	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the Prince and Princess | the two Princesses | Princess |  |  | with splendour's hearts | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Prince and Princess *not said here* | that | Princess |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **owe** | past | splendour | splendour's happiness |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the two Princesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | participle |  | Mice |  |  |  | lately *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **use** | would | the Fairy | Princess's power |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 9 | **release** | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* | splendour's unhappy friends |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer friend=Source |
| 10 | **is** | past | splendour's unhappy friends |  |  | the Enchanter's spell | still |  | tree rules |

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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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