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title: Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmar… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmarried, and a far more suitable match for a young and lovely Princess.’ Who acts: I, Highness. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 147

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Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmarried, and a far more suitable match for a young and lovely Princess.’

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**Who acts:** I, Highness · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old man

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Highness), 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:pg7277:7:147
# text = Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmarried, and a far more suitable match for a young and lovely Princess.’
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | a old man |  |  |  | a suitable match for a young Princess *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | your Highness |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | your Highness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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