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title: But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care abou… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament. Who acts: father, Princess, husband. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 58

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But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament.

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**Who acts:** father, Princess, husband · **What happens:** be, not seem, care, appoint · **To what, where:** second tournament

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Princess, husband), 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:pg640:7:58
# text = But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Princess's father |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **care** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about any | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about any=Stimulus |
| 4 | **appoint** | past | husband | a second tournament |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme |

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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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