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title: ‘That’s nonsense,’ said the Princess; ‘and if I can kiss him, you ca… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s nonsense,’ said the Princess; ‘and if I can kiss him, you can too. Who acts: That, Princess, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 87

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‘That’s nonsense,’ said the Princess; ‘and if I can kiss him, you can too.

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**Who acts:** That, Princess, I · **What happens:** be, say, kiss · **To what, where:** nonsense, Emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Princess, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:3082`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:43:87
# text = ‘That’s nonsense,’ said the Princess; ‘and if I can kiss him, you can too.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | nonsense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kiss** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I | Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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