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title: For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 92

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For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, live, desert · **To what, where:** desire, beautiful Prince Milan

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:28:92
# text = For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.’
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | no desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | no desire *not said here* |  |  | since my bridegroom |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **desert** | present · perfect · passive |  | the beautiful Prince Milan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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