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title: She learnt everything a Princess ought to know without the slightest… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She learnt everything a Princess ought to know without the slightest trouble, and yet something always seemed lacking to make her perfectly charming. Who acts: Sabella, Princess, something. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 70

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She learnt everything a Princess ought to know without the slightest trouble, and yet something always seemed lacking to make her perfectly charming.

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**Who acts:** Sabella, Princess, something · **What happens:** learn, know, seem, lack, make, charm · **To what, where:** everything, Sabella

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabella, Princess, something), 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:pg7277:15:70
# text = She learnt everything a Princess ought to know without the slightest trouble, and yet something always seemed lacking to make her perfectly charming.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	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 | **learn** | past | Sabella | everything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | ought | a Princess |  |  |  |  | without the slightest trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seem** | past | something |  |  |  | yet | always *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **lack** | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | Sabella |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 6 | **charm** | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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