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title: The Princess, on her side, vowed to have no other husband, and decla… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess, on her side, vowed to have no other husband, and declared herself willing to brave death itself in order to rejoin him. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 88

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The Princess, on her side, vowed to have no other husband, and declared herself willing to brave death itself in order to rejoin him.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** vow, have, declare, rejoin · **To what, where:** other husband, Princess, order, husband

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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 (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:pg640:23:88
# text = The Princess, on her side, vowed to have no other husband, and declared herself willing to brave death itself in order to rejoin him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | no other husband |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Princess *not said here* | Princess |  | order |  | willing death  death *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute |
| 4 | **rejoin** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | husband |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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