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title: Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, ‘Who is… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, ‘Who is most worthy to have one of us—he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom?’ Who acts: Princess, Halvor. 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 175

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Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, ‘Who is most worthy to have one of us—he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom?’

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**Who acts:** Princess, Halvor · **What happens:** rise up, say, be, have, deliver, sit · **To what, where:** table, one, Halvor, Trolls · **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 (Princess, Halvor), 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:pg540:6:175
# text = Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, ‘Who is most worthy to have one of us—he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom?’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
39	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | the Princess |  |  | the table | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | one of us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **deliver** | present · perfect · passive |  | Halvor |  | the Trolls |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Patient |
| 6 | **sit** | present · progressive | Halvor |  |  | here |  | as bridegroom | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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