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title: ‘But,’ cried Prince Featherhead, ‘surely you cannot care for so cont… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But,’ cried Prince Featherhead, ‘surely you cannot care for so contemptible and worthless a creature as that.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 164

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‘But,’ cried Prince Featherhead, ‘surely you cannot care for so contemptible and worthless a creature as that.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cry, not care · **To what, where:** Prince Featherhead

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7277:12:164
# text = ‘But,’ cried Prince Featherhead, ‘surely you cannot care for so contemptible and worthless a creature as that.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Prince Featherhead |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent featherhead=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **care** | can | you |  |  |  |  | for contemptible; surely *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for contemptible=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 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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