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title: The King’s son declared that he would fulfil his promise, and when h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s son declared that he would fulfil his promise, and when his parents mildly remarked that the girl was only a keeper of sheep, and a very ugly one too, the maiden boldly said that she was born a princess, and that, if they would only give her some water and leave her alone in a room for a 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 39

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The King’s son declared that he would fulfil his promise, and when his parents mildly remarked that the girl was only a keeper of sheep, and a very ugly one too, the maiden boldly said that she was born a princess, and that, if they would only give her some water and leave her alone in a room for a few minutes, she would show that she could look as well as anyone in fine clothes.

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**Who acts:** son, parents, girl, King · **What happens:** declare, fulfil, remark, be, say, bear · **To what, where:** that, promise, keeper, girl, water, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, parents, girl, King), 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:pg7277:24:39
# text = The King’s son declared that he would fulfil his promise, and when his parents mildly remarked that the girl was only a keeper of sheep, and a very ugly one too, the maiden boldly said that she was born a princess, and that, if they would only give her some water and leave her alone in a room for a few minutes, she would show that she could look as well as anyone in fine clothes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	mildly	mildly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
38	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	ccomp	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	only	only	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	_
56	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
60	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
65	for	for	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
70	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
71	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
72	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
73	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	76	mark	_	_
74	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	nsubj	_	_
75	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
76	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	ccomp	_	_
77	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	76	advmod	_	_
78	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	77	fixed	_	_
79	as	as	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	76	obl	_	_
81	in	in	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
82	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	amod	_	_
83	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	80	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the King's son | that |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fulfil** | would | son | King's promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | King's parents |  |  |  |  | mildly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the girl | a keeper |  |  |  | of sheep | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King's parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bear** | past · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary princess=Patient |
| 7 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | parents *= parent* | some water | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient water=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | girl |  | a room for a few minutes |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in room=Location |
| 9 | **show** | would | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **look** | could | girl |  |  |  |  | as anyone | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 11 | **promise** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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