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title: You look like herds-women compared with her, and the second Princess… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You look like herds-women compared with her, and the second Princess is also much prettier than you; but the youngest, who is my sweetheart, is more beautiful than either sun or moon. Who acts: You, women, second Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with i
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 105

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You look like herds-women compared with her, and the second Princess is also much prettier than you; but the youngest, who is my sweetheart, is more beautiful than either sun or moon.

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**Who acts:** You, women, second Princess · **What happens:** look, compare, be · **To what, where:** herds, sweetheart

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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, women, second 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:pg540:6:105
# text = You look like herds-women compared with her, and the second Princess is also much prettier than you; but the youngest, who is my sweetheart, is more beautiful than either sun or moon.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc:preconj	_	_
36	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | You |  |  |  |  | like herds | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **compare** | past | women | herds *not said here* |  |  |  | with Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herd=Patient with she=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the second Princess |  |  |  |  | than you; pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | my sweetheart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than sun or moon; the youngest *obl*; beautiful *property* | tree rules |

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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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