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title: But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them, and never gave him any peace till he had obtained leave to destroy the robes. Who acts: servant. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 40

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But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them, and never gave him any peace till he had obtained leave to destroy the robes.

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**Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** implore, have, do, not give, obtain, destroy · **To what, where:** prince, nothing, peace, servant, leave, robes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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:pg2435:2:40
# text = But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them, and never gave him any peace till he had obtained leave to destroy the robes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **implore** | past | the servant |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **give** | past | the servant *not said here* | any peace | servant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient peace=Theme |
| 5 | **obtain** | past · perfect | servant | leave |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 6 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* | the robes |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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