--- title: The king wouldn’t give him anything, and the eldest princesses would… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king wouldn’t give him anything, and the eldest princesses wouldn’t give him anything, nor their sweethearts; but the youngest daughter and her true love did give him something, and kind words along with it, and that was better than all. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eldest princesses, youngest daughter, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:10:83 # text = The king wouldn’t give him anything, and the eldest princesses wouldn’t give him anything, nor their sweethearts; but the youngest daughter and her true love did give him something, and kind words along with it, and that was better than all. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 21 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sweethearts sweetheart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 appos _ _ 39 along along ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 47 than than ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | would | the king | anything | lake | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give** | would | the eldest princesses | anything | lake | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past · do-support | the youngest daughter and court's true love | something | lake | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | that | | | | | than all; good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | | court | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/84/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/)