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title: ‘She shall be the prettiest girl that ever was, and fair and bright… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘She shall be the prettiest girl that ever was, and fair and bright as the day,’ said the first head. Who acts: head, prettiest girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 18

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‘She shall be the prettiest girl that ever was, and fair and bright as the day,’ said the first head.

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**Who acts:** head, prettiest girl · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** prettiest girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, prettiest girl), 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:pg540:47:18
# text = ‘She shall be the prettiest girl that ever was, and fair and bright as the day,’ said the first head.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | head | the prettiest girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the prettiest girl |  |  |  | ever; day | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the prettiest girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prettiest girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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