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title: ‘My good friend,’ he said to Peter, ‘do you know what I promised the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My good friend,’ he said to Peter, ‘do you know what I promised the person who succeeded in making the Princess laugh?’ Who acts: Peter, you, I, person. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 60

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‘My good friend,’ he said to Peter, ‘do you know what I promised the person who succeeded in making the Princess laugh?’

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**Who acts:** Peter, you, I, person · **What happens:** say, know, promise, succeed, make · **To what, where:** Peter, person, Princess laugh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, you, I, person), 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:pg7277:23:60
# text = ‘My good friend,’ he said to Peter, ‘do you know what I promised the person who succeeded in making the Princess laugh?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to peter=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | I |  | the person |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal person=Theme |
| 4 | **succeed** | past | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the person *not said here* | the Princess laugh |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product |

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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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