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title: Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed wi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed with the pretty witch-maiden? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 202

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Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed with the pretty witch-maiden?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, not stay · **To what, where:** Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:5:202
# text = Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed with the pretty witch-maiden?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | participle |  | the Prince |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stay** | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | with the pretty witch maiden | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with maiden=Location |

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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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