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title: ‘Wherever such a marvellously beautiful Princess appears I can look… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Wherever such a marvellously beautiful Princess appears I can look at nothing else.’ Who acts: beautiful Princess, I. 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 34

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‘Wherever such a marvellously beautiful Princess appears I can look at nothing else.’

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**Who acts:** beautiful Princess, I · **What happens:** appear, look

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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 (beautiful Princess, I), 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:pg7277:2:34
# text = ‘Wherever such a marvellously beautiful Princess appears I can look at nothing else.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	marvellously	marvellously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obl	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | such beautiful Princess |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **look** | can | I |  |  |  |  | at nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nothing=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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