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title: By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him goin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince. Who acts: Man, fourteen days, one, none. A sente
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 53

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By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince.

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**Who acts:** Man, fourteen days, one, none, blow · **What happens:** spend, remain, go, seek, escape, help · **To what, where:** Man, counsel, death, excuse, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, fourteen days, one, none), 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:pg3454:3:53
# text = By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Man |  |  |  | day | by friends's advice | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the fourteen days |  | Man |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the fourteen days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the fourteen days *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | from wise men of all sorts | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 5 | **escape** | might | Man | death |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **help** | could | no one |  | Man |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **find** | could | none | any excuse |  |  |  | for the blow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme for blow=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | the blow *not said here* | Man | the prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to prince=Recipient |

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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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