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title: Now you would have thought that by this time the king would have bee… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you would have thought that by this time the king would have been satisfied with the prince, and would have left him alone; but people’s natures are very hard to change, and when the two envious soldiers came to him with a new falsehood, he was as ready to listen to them as before. Who acts: you
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 60

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Now you would have thought that by this time the king would have been satisfied with the prince, and would have left him alone; but people’s natures are very hard to change, and when the two envious soldiers came to him with a new falsehood, he was as ready to listen to them as before.

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**Who acts:** you, natures, two envious soldiers, king · **What happens:** think, satisfy, leave, be, change, come · **To what, where:** that, king, soldiers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, natures, two envious soldiers, king), 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:pg2435:21:60
# text = Now you would have thought that by this time the king would have been satisfied with the prince, and would have left him alone; but people’s natures are very hard to change, and when the two envious soldiers came to him with a new falsehood, he was as ready to listen to them as before.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	natures	nature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
59	as	as	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	before	before	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect | you | that |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **satisfy** | would · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  | time | with the prince | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with prince=Instrument |
| 3 | **leave** | would · perfect |  | king |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | people's natures |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | people's natures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | the two envious soldiers |  | king |  |  | with a new falsehood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **listen** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  | before *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |

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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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