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title: The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no. But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress. Who acts: princess, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pi
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 71

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The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no. But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress.

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**Who acts:** princess, girl · **What happens:** be, not like, say, not give up, entreat, allow · **To what, where:** idea, no., hope, one tress · **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 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, girl), 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:pg5615:21:71
# text = The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no. But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
27	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	just	just	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	tress	tress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | of princess's hair; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the princess | the idea of parting with any |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess | no. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **give up** | could | the girl | hope |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
| 5 | **entreat** | past | girl |  |  |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **allow** | to-infinitive · passive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **cut off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | one tress |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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