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title: ‘Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you,’ said Halvor, ‘but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free. Who acts: you, dainty, Halvor, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency t
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 104

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‘Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you,’ said Halvor, ‘but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free.

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**Who acts:** you, dainty, Halvor, I · **What happens:** think, be, say, see, set · **To what, where:** you, eldest Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dainty, Halvor, I), 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:pg540:6:104
# text = ‘Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you,’ said Halvor, ‘but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | dainty |  | you |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | should | you | the eldest Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 6 | **set** | past | I | the eldest Princess |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient whom=Result |

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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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