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title: Then the Princess desired twelve complete huntsmen’s suits to be mad… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Princess desired twelve complete huntsmen’s suits to be made, all exactly alike, and the eleven maidens had to dress themselves in eleven of the suits, while she herself put on the twelfth. Who acts: Princess, eleven maidens. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve H
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 16

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Then the Princess desired twelve complete huntsmen’s suits to be made, all exactly alike, and the eleven maidens had to dress themselves in eleven of the suits, while she herself put on the twelfth.

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**Who acts:** Princess, eleven maidens · **What happens:** desire, make, have, dress, put · **To what, where:** suits, maidens, eleven, twelfth

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eleven maidens), 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:pg7277:43:16
# text = Then the Princess desired twelve complete huntsmen’s suits to be made, all exactly alike, and the eleven maidens had to dress themselves in eleven of the suits, while she herself put on the twelfth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
15	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	conj	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | the Princess | twelve complete huntsmen's suits |  |  | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot suit=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **have** | past | the eleven maidens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dress** | to-infinitive | the eleven maidens *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  | eleven of the suits |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | participle | Princess |  |  | the twelfth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on twelfth=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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