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title: This prince who is staying with me has better dinners than any one e… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This prince who is staying with me has better dinners than any one except myself, and is a great judge of cooking. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 31

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This prince who is staying with me has better dinners than any one except myself, and is a great judge of cooking.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** stay, have, be · **To what, where:** better dinners, great judge

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg641:28:31
# text = This prince who is staying with me has better dinners than any one except myself, and is a great judge of cooking.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	dinners	dinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	except	except	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present · progressive | this prince |  |  |  |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | this prince | better dinners |  |  |  | than any one except myself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a great judge |  |  |  | of cooking | 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 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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