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title: Of course, the fame of so lovely a Princess spread far and wide, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, the fame of so lovely a Princess spread far and wide, and many were the suitors who sought to win her hand. Who acts: Princess, many suitors. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

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Of course, the fame of so lovely a Princess spread far and wide, and many were the suitors who sought to win her hand.

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**Who acts:** Princess, many suitors · **What happens:** spread, be, seek, win · **To what, where:** many suitors, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, many suitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:5:1
# text = Of course, the fame of so lovely a Princess spread far and wide, and many were the suitors who sought to win her hand.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | a Princess |  |  |  |  | of the fame of lovely; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the many suitors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | past | the many suitors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the many suitors *not said here* | Princess's hand |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |

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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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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