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title: He added many other tender speeches to this declaration, and the Pri… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He added many other tender speeches to this declaration, and the Princess, to whom such remarks were a new experience, could not help feeling pleased and touched by his attentions. Who acts: Fairer, such remarks, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16),
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 62

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He added many other tender speeches to this declaration, and the Princess, to whom such remarks were a new experience, could not help feeling pleased and touched by his attentions.

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**Who acts:** Fairer, such remarks, Princess · **What happens:** add, be, not help, feel, touch, attend · **To what, where:** many other tender speeches, new experience

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairer, such remarks, Princess), 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:pg640:23:62
# text = He added many other tender speeches to this declaration, and the Princess, to whom such remarks were a new experience, could not help feeling pleased and touched by his attentions.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	attentions	attention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Fairer | many other tender speeches |  |  |  | to this declaration | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent speech=Patient to declaration=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | such remarks | a new experience |  |  |  | to the Princess | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **help** | could | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **touch** | participle | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Fairer's attentions | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **attend** |  | Fairer |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 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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