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title: So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn’t give pe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn’t give peace or ease to their lovers nor the king till they got consent to the marriage, and it was to take place this morning. Who acts: princes, peace, it. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 63

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So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn’t give peace or ease to their lovers nor the king till they got consent to the marriage, and it was to take place this morning.

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**Who acts:** princes, peace, it · **What happens:** court, not give, get, be · **To what, where:** eldest ladies, peace, lovers, consent

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, peace, it), 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:pg3454:11:63
# text = So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn’t give peace or ease to their lovers nor the king till they got consent to the marriage, and it was to take place this morning.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	courting	court	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
25	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **court** | past · progressive | the princes | the eldest ladies |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **give** | would | the princes | peace or ease | peace's lovers nor the king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to lover=Recipient |
| 3 | **get** | past | peace | consent |  |  |  | to the marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  | morning | take *property* | tree rules |

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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 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.

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