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title: The princess went to meet her father, fell on his neck and kissed hi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess went to meet her father, fell on his neck and kissed him, but with that she said, ‘O father, father! what have you done now? to-morrow I must die, and you must choose one of three things: either the land must be smitten with the black pestilence, or you must have a long and bloody war, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 104

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The princess went to meet her father, fell on his neck and kissed him, but with that she said, ‘O father, father! what have you done now? to-morrow I must die, and you must choose one of three things: either the land must be smitten with the black pestilence, or you must have a long and bloody war, or you must as soon as I am dead, lay me in a plain wooden chest, and set it in the church, and for a whole year place a sentinel beside it every night.’

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**Who acts:** princess, you, I · **What happens:** go, meet, fall, kiss, say, do · **To what, where:** father, neck, tuft, morrow, one, land · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, you, I), 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:pg5615:6:104
# text = The princess went to meet her father, fell on his neck and kissed him, but with that she said, ‘O father, father! what have you done now? to-morrow I must die, and you must choose one of three things: either the land must be smitten with the black pestilence, or you must have a long and bloody war, or you must as soon as I am dead, lay me in a plain wooden chest, and set it in the church, and for a whole year place a sentinel beside it every night.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
51	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc:preconj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	conj	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
67	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	conj	_	_
70	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
72	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	82	cc	_	_
73	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	82	nsubj	_	_
74	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	82	aux	_	_
75	as	as	ADV	RB	_	76	advmod	_	_
76	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	82	advmod	_	_
77	as	as	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
78	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	80	nsubj	_	_
79	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	80	cop	_	_
80	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
82	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	parataxis	_	_
83	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	82	obj	_	_
84	in	in	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
85	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	88	det	_	_
86	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
87	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
88	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	91	punct	_	_
90	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	91	cc	_	_
91	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	82	conj	_	_
92	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	91	obj	_	_
93	in	in	ADP	IN	_	95	case	_	_
94	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	95	det	_	_
95	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	91	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	102	punct	_	_
97	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	102	cc	_	_
98	for	for	ADP	IN	_	102	case	_	_
99	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	102	det	_	_
100	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	102	amod	_	_
101	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	102	compound	_	_
102	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
103	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	104	det	_	_
104	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	102	appos	_	_
105	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	106	case	_	_
106	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	104	nmod	_	_
107	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	108	det	_	_
108	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	102	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
109	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
110	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | Princess's father |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | tuft's neck |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location |
| 4 | **kiss** | past |  | tuft |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | with that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | now | to morrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **die** | must | I | morrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **choose** | must | you | one of three things |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 9 | **smite** | must · passive |  | the land |  |  |  | with the black pestilence | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pestilence=Instrument |
| 10 | **have** | must | you | a long war |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 11 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **lay** | must | you | me |  | a plain wooden chest |  | soon *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in chest=Destination |
| 13 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | war |  | the church |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in church=Destination |

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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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