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title: No sooner did the Princess catch sight of him than she blushed, and,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner did the Princess catch sight of him than she blushed, and, turning to the King, said, "Dear father, this is my choice!" Who acts: matter, this. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 21

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No sooner did the Princess catch sight of him than she blushed, and, turning to the King, said, "Dear father, this is my choice!"

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**Who acts:** matter, this · **What happens:** do, blush, turn, say, be, sight · **To what, where:** Princess catch sight, choice, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, this), 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:pg7128:19:21
# text = No sooner did the Princess catch sight of him than she blushed, and, turning to the King, said, "Dear father, this is my choice!"
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Princess catch sight of King |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **blush** | past | matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the King *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | my choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | King |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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