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title: ‘Do you like blue eyes?’ said the Princess; but Désiré thought it wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do you like blue eyes?’ said the Princess; but Désiré thought it was a good opportunity to find out what was in her heart, so he did not answer. Who acts: you, Désiré, death. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 147

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‘Do you like blue eyes?’ said the Princess; but Désiré thought it was a good opportunity to find out what was in her heart, so he did not answer.

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**Who acts:** you, Désiré, death · **What happens:** like, say, think, be, find out, not answer · **To what, where:** blue eyes, Princess, good opportunity · **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 (you, Désiré, death), 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:pg540:40:147
# text = ‘Do you like blue eyes?’ said the Princess; but Désiré thought it was a good opportunity to find out what was in her heart, so he did not answer.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present · do-support | you | blue eyes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Désiré |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | death | a good opportunity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find out** | to-infinitive | Désiré *not said here* | a good opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Désiré |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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