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title: Where to find one rich enough and clever enough to be a suitable mat… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Where to find one rich enough and clever enough to be a suitable match for the princess was what troubled him, and often kept him awake at night. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 5

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Where to find one rich enough and clever enough to be a suitable match for the princess was what troubled him, and often kept him awake at night.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** find, be, keep · **To what, where:** one rich clever suitable match, king

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg641:24:5
# text = Where to find one rich enough and clever enough to be a suitable match for the princess was what troubled him, and often kept him awake at night.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a one rich clever suitable match |  |  |  | for the princess | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | trouble *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | past |  | king |  |  | night | awake, often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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