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title: Believe me, the Princess Mayblossom was far too well brought up to t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Believe me, the Princess Mayblossom was far too well brought up to think of falling in love with an Ambassador.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 52

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Believe me, the Princess Mayblossom was far too well brought up to think of falling in love with an Ambassador.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** believe, bring up, think, fall · **To what, where:** me, Princess Mayblossom, love

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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 (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:pg540:4:52
# text = Believe me, the Princess Mayblossom was far too well brought up to think of falling in love with an Ambassador.’
1	Believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring up** | past · passive |  | the Princess Mayblossom |  |  |  | well *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  | love |  | with a Ambassador | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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