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title: The Prince answered at once, ‘I have heard so much of your beauty an… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince answered at once, ‘I have heard so much of your beauty and kindness, that I would very much like to enter your service.’ Who acts: Prince, I, your. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 46

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The Prince answered at once, ‘I have heard so much of your beauty and kindness, that I would very much like to enter your service.’

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**Who acts:** Prince, I, your · **What happens:** answer, hear, like, enter, service · **To what, where:** much, service

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, your), 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:pg640:34:46
# text = The Prince answered at once, ‘I have heard so much of your beauty and kindness, that I would very much like to enter your service.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | much of your beauty and kindness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your service |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 5 | **service** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: 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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