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title: ‘What!’ cried he, ‘does the lovely Princess Fiordelisa deign to thin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What!’ cried he, ‘does the lovely Princess Fiordelisa deign to think of me in this amiable and encouraging way?’ Who acts: lovely Princess Fiordelisa. 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 59

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‘What!’ cried he, ‘does the lovely Princess Fiordelisa deign to think of me in this amiable and encouraging way?’

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**Who acts:** lovely Princess Fiordelisa · **What happens:** cry, deign, think, encourage · **To what, where:** King, amiable way

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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 (lovely Princess Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:2:59
# text = ‘What!’ cried he, ‘does the lovely Princess Fiordelisa deign to think of me in this amiable and encouraging way?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	deign	deign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	encouraging	encourage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **deign** | present · do-support | the lovely Princess Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the lovely Princess Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  | this amiable way |  | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **encourage** | gerund | the lovely Princess Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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