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title: They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi. Who acts: gypsies, false princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 232

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They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi.

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**Who acts:** gypsies, false princess · **What happens:** pretend, believe, put, bring · **To what, where:** ladies, misfortune, rich dresses

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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 (gypsies, false princess), 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:pg540:40:232
# text = They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | gypsies *= gypsy* | the ladies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive | gypsies *= gypsy* *not said here* | misfortune |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **put** | participle | gypsies *= gypsy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the false princess; once *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on princess=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | the false princess *not said here* | the rich dresses |  |  |  | for Zizi | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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