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title: The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well, and the young prince and princess were taught everything likely to make them clever and accomplished. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 25

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The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well, and the young prince and princess were taught everything likely to make them clever and accomplished.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, bring up, teach, make, accomplish · **To what, where:** children, young prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (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:pg3282:30:25
# text = The king and queen were very anxious to bring their children up well, and the young prince and princess were taught everything likely to make them clever and accomplished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
24	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	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** | past | the king and queen |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | the king and queen *not said here* | Asmund's children |  |  |  | well *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the young prince and princess |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 5 | **accomplish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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