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title: At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, ‘You may have i… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, ‘You may have it, then, on condition that you shall find the handsomest prince in the world to be my bridegroom!’ Who acts: princess, You, condition. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its depend
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 72

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At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, ‘You may have it, then, on condition that you shall find the handsomest prince in the world to be my bridegroom!’

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**Who acts:** princess, You, condition · **What happens:** lose, exclaim, have, find, be · **To what, where:** patience, length, condition, bridegroom · **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, You, condition), 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:pg5615:21:72
# text = At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, ‘You may have it, then, on condition that you shall find the handsomest prince in the world to be my bridegroom!’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the princess | patience |  | length |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | may | You | patience |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | shall | you | condition |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme prince=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | condition *not said here* | my bridegroom |  |  |  |  | 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 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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