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title: However, she answered graciously that she accepted with pleasure, wh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, she answered graciously that she accepted with pleasure, which encouraged the Prince to entreat further that she would not show any favour to his adversary. Who acts: Princess, pleasure, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 29

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However, she answered graciously that she accepted with pleasure, which encouraged the Prince to entreat further that she would not show any favour to his adversary.

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**Who acts:** Princess, pleasure, Prince · **What happens:** answer, accept, encourage, entreat, not show · **To what, where:** Prince, favour, adversary

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, pleasure, Prince), 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:pg7277:16:29
# text = However, she answered graciously that she accepted with pleasure, which encouraged the Prince to entreat further that she would not show any favour to his adversary.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | graciously, however *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accept** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **encourage** | past | pleasure | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **entreat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **show** | would | Princess | any favour | Prince's adversary |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Topic to adversary=Recipient |

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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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