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title: How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa be a little kitchen-maid? o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa be a little kitchen-maid? or how could a little kitchen-maid have Fiordelisa’s own voice? Who acts: lovely Princess Fiordelisa. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 62

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How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa be a little kitchen-maid? or how could a little kitchen-maid have Fiordelisa’s own voice?

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**Who acts:** lovely Princess Fiordelisa · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** little kitchen maid, own voice

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Princess Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:5:62
# text = How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa be a little kitchen-maid? or how could a little kitchen-maid have Fiordelisa’s own voice?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | could | the lovely Princess Fiordelisa | a little kitchen maid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | could |  | Fiordelisa's own voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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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