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title: No sooner did the princess cast her eyes on the petticoats than she… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner did the princess cast her eyes on the petticoats than she declared they were even more beautiful than the mantle, and that she would give the maiden whatever price she wanted for them. Who acts: princess, petticoats. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 77

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No sooner did the princess cast her eyes on the petticoats than she declared they were even more beautiful than the mantle, and that she would give the maiden whatever price she wanted for them.

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**Who acts:** princess, petticoats · **What happens:** cast, declare, be, give, want · **To what, where:** eyes, petticoats, maiden price · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, petticoats), 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:pg5615:25:77
# text = No sooner did the princess cast her eyes on the petticoats than she declared they were even more beautiful than the mantle, and that she would give the maiden whatever price she wanted for them.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	32	det	_	_
32	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past · do-support | the princess | princess's eyes |  | the petticoats |  | soon *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on petticoat=Destination |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | petticoats *= petticoat* |  |  |  |  | than the mantle; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | would | princess | whatever maiden price |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | past | princess | whatever maiden price *not said here* |  |  |  | for petticoats *= petticoat* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot price=Theme |

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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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