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title: Then the princess said, ‘Now the witch has kept her promise, but she… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 52

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Then the princess said, ‘Now the witch has kept her promise, but she will do no more if she can help it, so we must fly immediately.

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**Who acts:** princess, we, witch · **What happens:** say, keep, do, help, fly, promise · **To what, where:** witch, more, promise · **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 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, we, witch), 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:pg5615:26:52
# text = Then the princess said, ‘Now the witch has kept her promise, but she will do no more if she can help it, so we must fly immediately.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | present · perfect · passive |  | the witch |  |  | now |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme promise=Attribute |
| 3 | **do** | future | princess | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 4 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | princess | promise |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **fly** | must | we |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **promise** |  | witch |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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