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title: But the Princess comforted him, and said she should be quite willing… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Princess comforted him, and said she should be quite willing to go with Jack my Hedgehog whenever he came to fetch her, because of the great love she bore to her dear old father. Who acts: Princess, Jack. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its depende
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 46

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But the Princess comforted him, and said she should be quite willing to go with Jack my Hedgehog whenever he came to fetch her, because of the great love she bore to her dear old father.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Jack · **What happens:** comfort, say, be, go, come, fetch · **To what, where:** Jack, Hedgehog, Princess, great love · **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 (Princess, Jack), 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:pg7277:48:46
# text = But the Princess comforted him, and said she should be quite willing to go with Jack my Hedgehog whenever he came to fetch her, because of the great love she bore to her dear old father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	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 | **comfort** | past | the Princess | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | should | Princess |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | my Hedgehog |  |  |  | with Jack | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with jack=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **come** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | because the great love | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 7 | **bear** | past | Princess | the great love *not said here* |  |  |  | to Princess's dear old father | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |

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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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