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title: But though the young man was pleasant and handsome, the princess tho… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 70

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But though the young man was pleasant and handsome, the princess thought him rather womanish in some ways, and displayed her opinion so openly as to draw upon herself and Aveline the anger of the fairy, who declared that Minon-Minette should never know happiness till she had found a bridge without an arch and a bird without feathers.

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**Who acts:** young man, princess, fairy, Minon · **What happens:** be, think, display, draw, declare, not know · **To what, where:** Girouette, opinion, anger, happiness, bridge · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, princess, fairy, Minon), 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:pg5615:30:70
# text = But though the young man was pleasant and handsome, the princess thought him rather womanish in some ways, and displayed her opinion so openly as to draw upon herself and Aveline the anger of the fairy, who declared that Minon-Minette should never know happiness till she had found a bridge without an arch and a bird without feathers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	womanish	womanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	Minon	Minon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Minette	Minette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
46	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
49	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	ccomp	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	without	without	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
62	without	without	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the princess | Girouette |  |  |  | womanish *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **display** | past | the princess *not said here* | princess's opinion |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 5 | **draw** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | the anger of the fairy |  |  |  | upon princess; openly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 6 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **know** | should | Minon | happiness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | past · perfect | princess | a bridge |  |  |  | without a arch and a bird; without feathers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Topic |
| 9 | **opine** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **anger** |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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