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title: The Princess recognized her deliverer at once, and did not need the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess recognized her deliverer at once, and did not need the proof of the two dragon’s teeth which he drew from his pocket. Who acts: Princess, coachman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 55

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The Princess recognized her deliverer at once, and did not need the proof of the two dragon’s teeth which he drew from his pocket.

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**Who acts:** Princess, coachman · **What happens:** recognize, not need, draw, proof · **To what, where:** deliverer, proof, teeth, pocket

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, coachman), 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:pg7277:56:55
# text = The Princess recognized her deliverer at once, and did not need the proof of the two dragon’s teeth which he drew from his pocket.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | the Princess | Princess's deliverer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deliverer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | the Princess *not said here* | the proof of the two dragon's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | coachman | the two dragon's teeth |  | coachman's pocket |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **proof** |  |  | the two dragon's teeth |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition 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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