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title: ‘I am the first waiting maid of his daughter, the lovely princess Ot… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am the first waiting maid of his daughter, the lovely princess Otohime, whom you will shortly see.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 78

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‘I am the first waiting maid of his daughter, the lovely princess Otohime, whom you will shortly see.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** first waiting maid

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg5615:3:78
# text = ‘I am the first waiting maid of his daughter, the lovely princess Otohime, whom you will shortly see.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	Otohime	Otohime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the first waiting maid and the lovely princess |  |  |  | of maid's daughter | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | the first waiting maid and the lovely princess |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |

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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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