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title: At first the princess said no, but the girl begged so hard that at l… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the princess said no, but the girl begged so hard that at length she gave in on condition that she should find her a prince as bridegroom. Who acts: princess, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 80

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At first the princess said no, but the girl begged so hard that at length she gave in on condition that she should find her a prince as bridegroom.

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**Who acts:** princess, girl · **What happens:** say, beg, give in, find · **To what, where:** length, princess · **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:pg5615:21:80
# text = At first the princess said no, but the girl begged so hard that at length she gave in on condition that she should find her a prince as bridegroom.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give in** | past | girl |  |  | length |  | on condition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | should | girl | princess |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme prince=Attribute |

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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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