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title: ‘Stay, Grumedan; this Princess is under my protection, and the small… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Stay, Grumedan; this Princess is under my protection, and the smallest impertinence will cost you a thousand years of captivity. Who acts: you, Princess, smallest impertinence. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 53

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‘Stay, Grumedan; this Princess is under my protection, and the smallest impertinence will cost you a thousand years of captivity.

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**Who acts:** you, Princess, smallest impertinence · **What happens:** stay, be, cost · **To what, where:** Grumedan, protection, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, smallest impertinence), 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:pg7277:11:53
# text = ‘Stay, Grumedan; this Princess is under my protection, and the smallest impertinence will cost you a thousand years of captivity.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	impertinence	impertinence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | Grumedan |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grumedan=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | this Princess |  |  | my protection |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cost** | future | the smallest impertinence |  | you |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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