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title: The princess wept for sympathy, and promised that they should never… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess wept for sympathy, and promised that they should never more be parted, but should live with her to the end of their days. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 62

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The princess wept for sympathy, and promised that they should never more be parted, but should live with her to the end of their days.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** weep, promise, not part, live · **To what, where:** Heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg5615:1:62
# text = The princess wept for sympathy, and promised that they should never more be parted, but should live with her to the end of their days.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | for sympathy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **part** | should · passive |  | Heart |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | should | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  | to the end of Heart's days | with Princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |

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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 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.

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