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title: ‘Well, then, my charming Zizi,’ said the young Prince, who was longi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, then, my charming Zizi,’ said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, ‘let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.’ Who acts: Zizi, young Prince, us. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 137

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‘Well, then, my charming Zizi,’ said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, ‘let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.’

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**Who acts:** Zizi, young Prince, us · **What happens:** say, long, marry, let, ride away, escape · **To what, where:** Zizi, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zizi, young Prince, us), 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:pg540:40:137
# text = ‘Well, then, my charming Zizi,’ said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, ‘let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zizi  my charming |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **long** | past · progressive | the young Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the young Prince *not said here* | Zizi |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride away** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **escape** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the wicked witch | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from witch=Initial\_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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