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title: At this the Princess was quite pleased, and said how cleverly her fa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the Princess was quite pleased, and said how cleverly her father had managed, for that of course nothing would induce her to have gone off with Jack my Hedgehog. Who acts: father, nothing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 32

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At this the Princess was quite pleased, and said how cleverly her father had managed, for that of course nothing would induce her to have gone off with Jack my Hedgehog.

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**Who acts:** father, nothing · **What happens:** be, say, manage, induce, go off · **To what, where:** that, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, nothing), 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:pg7277:48:32
# text = At this the Princess was quite pleased, and said how cleverly her father had managed, for that of course nothing would induce her to have gone off with Jack my Hedgehog.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	fixed	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	induce	induce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the Princess; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | cleverly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **manage** | past · perfect | Princess's father | that |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **induce** | would | nothing | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **go off** | to-infinitive · perfect | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Jack | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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