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title: The haughty Princess, however, on hearing that he was not her equal… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The haughty Princess, however, on hearing that he was not her equal by birth despised him, and exacted the fulfilment of a second task. Who acts: hearing, haughty Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 48

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The haughty Princess, however, on hearing that he was not her equal by birth despised him, and exacted the fulfilment of a second task.

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**Who acts:** hearing, haughty Princess · **What happens:** not be, despise, exact, fulfil · **To what, where:** hearing, fulfilment, second task

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearing, haughty Princess), 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:pg7277:50:48
# text = The haughty Princess, however, on hearing that he was not her equal by birth despised him, and exacted the fulfilment of a second task.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	exacted	exact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | hearing | hearing *not said here* |  |  |  | by birth; equal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **despise** | past | the haughty Princess | hearing |  |  |  | however *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exact** | past | the haughty Princess *not said here* | the fulfilment of a second task |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fulfilment=Theme |
| 4 | **fulfil** |  |  | a second task |  |  |  |  | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=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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