--- title: The princess, Gon’s new mistress, was so good and kind that everybod… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess, Gon’s new mistress, was so good and kind that everybody loved her, and she would have led a happy life, had it not been for a serpent who had fallen in love with her, and was constantly annoying her by his presence. Who acts: princess, everybody, serpent. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/) / 51 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 51 The princess, Gon’s new mistress, was so good and kind that everybody loved her, and she would have led a happy life, had it not been for a serpent who had fallen in love with her, and was constantly annoying her by his presence. **Who acts:** princess, everybody, serpent · **What happens:** be, love, lead, have, not be, fall · **To what, where:** Princess, happy life, mistress, love This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, everybody, serpent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:1:51 # text = The princess, Gon’s new mistress, was so good and kind that everybody loved her, and she would have led a happy life, had it not been for a serpent who had fallen in love with her, and was constantly annoying her by his presence. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 Gon Gon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ _ 16 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 23 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 cop _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 annoying annoying ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ _ 48 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the princess and Gon's new mistress | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the princess and Gon's new mistress *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **love** | past | everybody | Princess | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **lead** | would · perfect | Princess | a happy life | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | | mistress | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | for a serpent | tree rules | | 7 | **fall** | past · perfect | a serpent | | | love | | with Princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 8 | **is** | past | | | | | | by Gon's presence; Princess *obl*; annoying, constantly *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/52/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/)