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title: She was now the most beautiful young princess that anyone could wish… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was now the most beautiful young princess that anyone could wish to see, and he was now lord of half the kingdom, which had been promised him for standing on guard the third nigh. Who acts: She, anyone, he. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 1

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She was now the most beautiful young princess that anyone could wish to see, and he was now lord of half the kingdom, which had been promised him for standing on guard the third nigh.

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**Who acts:** She, anyone, he · **What happens:** be, wish, see, promise, stand · **To what, where:** beautiful young princess, lord, him, guard

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, anyone, he), 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:pg5615:8:1
# text = She was now the most beautiful young princess that anyone could wish to see, and he was now lord of half the kingdom, which had been promised him for standing on guard the third nigh.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	xcomp	_	_
37	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | the beautiful young princess and lord |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | could | anyone | the beautiful young princess and lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | he | lord |  |  | now | of half kingdom | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive |  | lord | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | guard |  | third *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location |

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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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