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title: No more exquisitely lovely mortal was ever seen than this Princess,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No more exquisitely lovely mortal was ever seen than this Princess, and it needed all an eagle’s strength of sight to prevent the King being hopelessly dazzled. Who acts: mortal. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its depe
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 100

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No more exquisitely lovely mortal was ever seen than this Princess, and it needed all an eagle’s strength of sight to prevent the King being hopelessly dazzled.

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**Who acts:** mortal · **What happens:** see, need, prevent, dazzle · **To what, where:** lovely mortal, strength, King

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal), 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:pg640:19:100
# text = No more exquisitely lovely mortal was ever seen than this Princess, and it needed all an eagle’s strength of sight to prevent the King being hopelessly dazzled.
1	No	no	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
3	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | lovely mortal |  |  | ever | than this Princess; exquisitely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **need** | past | mortal | a eagle's strength of sight |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | mortal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dazzle** | gerund · passive |  | the King |  |  |  | hopelessly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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