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title: But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to his parents that he would marry the girl whom that ring fitted. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 34

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But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to his parents that he would marry the girl whom that ring fitted.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** cut, find, declare, marry, fit · **To what, where:** loaf, ring, parents, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg7277:24:34
# text = But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to his parents that he would marry the girl whom that ring fitted.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund | son *not said here* | loaf |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 2 | **find** | past | son | the ring of the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | son *not said here* |  | son's parents |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient |
| 4 | **marry** | would | son | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 5 | **fit** | participle · passive |  |  | the girl |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme whom=Destination |

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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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