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title: She took council with her father’s wisest men as to what ought to be… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She took council with her father’s wisest men as to what ought to be done, and among other things they advised her to build a house beside the highway, and put over the door this inscription:—“Whoever will tell the story of his life, may stay here three nights for nothing.” Who acts: princess, men, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 73

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She took council with her father’s wisest men as to what ought to be done, and among other things they advised her to build a house beside the highway, and put over the door this inscription:—“Whoever will tell the story of his life, may stay here three nights for nothing.”

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**Who acts:** princess, men, Whoever · **What happens:** take, do, advise, build, put, tell · **To what, where:** council, princess, house, highway, inscription, door · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, men, Whoever), 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:pg2435:30:73
# text = She took council with her father’s wisest men as to what ought to be done, and among other things they advised her to build a house beside the highway, and put over the door this inscription:—“Whoever will tell the story of his life, may stay here three nights for nothing.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
13	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
54	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
55	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | princess | council |  |  |  | with princess's father's wisest men | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | men *= man* | princess |  |  |  | among other things | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a house |  | the highway |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 5 | **put** | participle | princess *not said here* | this inscription |  | the door |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inscription=Theme over door=Destination |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Whoever | the story of father's life |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 7 | **stay** *in a quote* | may | Whoever *not said here* |  |  | here | night | for nothing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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