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title: ‘My daughter certainly ought to be the first to be married; she is o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My daughter certainly ought to be the first to be married; she is older than yours, and a thousand times more charming!’ Who acts: daughter, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 18

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‘My daughter certainly ought to be the first to be married; she is older than yours, and a thousand times more charming!’

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**Who acts:** daughter, Queen · **What happens:** be, marry

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Queen), 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:pg7277:2:18
# text = ‘My daughter certainly ought to be the first to be married; she is older than yours, and a thousand times more charming!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | ought | My daughter |  |  |  |  | more charming *obl*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | My daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | present | Queen |  |  |  |  | than yours; old *property* | tree rules |

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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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