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title: After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up his bad and thievish ways, and ruled his subjects well. Who acts: Pinkel, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 90

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After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up his bad and thievish ways, and ruled his subjects well.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel, king · **What happens:** become, let up, give up, rule, die · **To what, where:** king, hope, bad ways, subjects

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, 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:pg3027:17:90
# text = After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up his bad and thievish ways, and ruled his subjects well.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thievish	thievish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Pinkel | king |  |  | after king's death |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **let up** | infinitive | Pinkel *not said here* | hope |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme |
| 3 | **give up** | past | Pinkel | king's bad ways |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Source |
| 4 | **rule** | past | Pinkel *not said here* | king's subjects |  |  |  | well *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **die** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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