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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 109

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Presently she heard him say: ‘Search under the bush Princess; you will find some sugar, almonds, and some tarts there But don’t be silly enough to offer Fanfaronade any.’

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**Who acts:** nightingale, King, you · **What happens:** hear, say, search, find, not be, offer · **To what, where:** King, sugar, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (nightingale, King, 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:pg540:4:109
# text = Presently she heard him say: ‘Search under the bush Princess; you will find some sugar, almonds, and some tarts there But don’t be silly enough to offer Fanfaronade any.’
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
26	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | nightingale | King |  | there |  | presently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **search** | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under the bush Princess | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under princess=Location |
| 4 | **find** | future | you | some sugar and almonds |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support | nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, silly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **offer** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=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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