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title: ‘The newspapers came out next morning with a border of hearts round… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The newspapers came out next morning with a border of hearts round it, and the princess’s monogram on it, and inside you could read that every good-looking young man might come into the palace and speak to the princess, and whoever should speak loud enough to be heard would be well fed and looked a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 71

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‘The newspapers came out next morning with a border of hearts round it, and the princess’s monogram on it, and inside you could read that every good-looking young man might come into the palace and speak to the princess, and whoever should speak loud enough to be heard would be well fed and looked after, and the one who spoke best should become the princess’s husband.

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**Who acts:** newspapers, you, looking young man, whoever, one · **What happens:** come out, read, look, come, speak, hear · **To what, where:** monogram, palace, best, husband · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newspapers, you, looking young man, whoever), 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:pg5615:9:71
# text = ‘The newspapers came out next morning with a border of hearts round it, and the princess’s monogram on it, and inside you could read that every good-looking young man might come into the palace and speak to the princess, and whoever should speak loud enough to be heard would be well fed and looked after, and the one who spoke best should become the princess’s husband.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	monogram	monogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
49	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
51	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux:pass	_	_
58	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	59	advmod	_	_
59	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	ccomp	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	conj	_	_
62	after	after	ADP	IN	_	61	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nsubj	_	_
67	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	68	nsubj	_	_
68	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	acl:relcl	_	_
69	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	68	obj	_	_
70	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
71	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	’s	's	PART	POS	_	73	case	_	_
75	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the newspapers | the princess's monogram on monogram |  |  | morning | with a border of hearts round border; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | might | every looking young man |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | every looking young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | should | whoever |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | whoever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **feed** | would · passive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient» |
| 9 | **look after** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the one | best |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **become** | should | the one | the princess's husband |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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