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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 46

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This was the most eloquent speech the King had been known to make, and when everybody had done admiring it the Prime Minister made answer:

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**Who acts:** This, eloquent speech, everybody, Prime Minister · **What happens:** be, know, make, do, admire · **To what, where:** eloquent speech, King, speech, answer

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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 (This, eloquent speech, everybody, Prime Minister), 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:pg540:4:46
# text = This was the most eloquent speech the King had been known to make, and when everybody had done admiring it the Prime Minister made answer:
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
20	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
24	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
26	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the eloquent speech |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past · perfect · passive | the eloquent speech *not said here* | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the eloquent speech *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **admire** | gerund | everybody *not said here* | speech |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past | the Prime Minister | answer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |

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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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