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title: One day when she had grown up, her father looked at her, and saw tha… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when she had grown up, her father looked at her, and saw that she was exactly like her mother, so he said to his councillors, ‘I will marry my daughter to one of you, and she shall be queen, for she is exactly like her dead mother, and when I die her husband shall be king.’ Who acts: _, fath
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 11

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One day when she had grown up, her father looked at her, and saw that she was exactly like her mother, so he said to his councillors, ‘I will marry my daughter to one of you, and she shall be queen, for she is exactly like her dead mother, and when I die her husband shall be king.’

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**Who acts:** \_, father, I, husband · **What happens:** grow up, look, see, be, say, marry · **To what, where:** councillors, daughter, one, queen, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, father, I, husband), 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:pg7277:42:11
# text = One day when she had grown up, her father looked at her, and saw that she was exactly like her mother, so he said to his councillors, ‘I will marry my daughter to one of you, and she shall be queen, for she is exactly like her dead mother, and when I die her husband shall be king.’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
52	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
53	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	61	advmod	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
64	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
65	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	cop	_	_
66	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past · perfect | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | \_'s father |  |  |  | day | at \_ | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | \_'s father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | \_ |  |  |  |  | like \_'s mother; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  | father's councillors |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to councillor=Recipient |
| 6 | **marry** | future | I | my daughter | one of you |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to one=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | shall | \_ | queen and \_'s dead mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  | for \_'s dead mother; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 10 | **is a** | shall | \_'s husband | king |  |  |  |  | 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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