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title: ‘My mistress,’ answered the lad--‘the Princess that was under the sp… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My mistress,’ answered the lad--‘the Princess that was under the spell and is now free.’ Who acts: mistress, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 66

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‘My mistress,’ answered the lad--‘the Princess that was under the spell and is now free.’

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**Who acts:** mistress, that · **What happens:** answer, be · **To what, where:** lad, spell

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, that), 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:pg640:45:66
# text = ‘My mistress,’ answered the lad--‘the Princess that was under the spell and is now free.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	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 | My mistress | the lad |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  | the spell |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that *not said here* |  |  |  | now | free *property* | tree rules |

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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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