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title: The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowe… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowers and fruit, and at the end of a year the park was not like the same place, and the King showered gifts upon his new servant. Who acts: man, difficulty, park, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Rin
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 16

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The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowers and fruit, and at the end of a year the park was not like the same place, and the King showered gifts upon his new servant.

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**Who acts:** man, difficulty, park, King · **What happens:** find, make, not be, shower · **To what, where:** difficulty, royal produce flowers, end, gifts, new servant

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, difficulty, park, 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:pg503:2:16
# text = The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowers and fruit, and at the end of a year the park was not like the same place, and the King showered gifts upon his new servant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the man | no difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | no difficulty *not said here* | the royal produce flowers and fruit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flower=Product |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the park |  |  |  | at the end of a year | like *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shower** | past | the King | gifts |  | king's new servant |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme upon servant=Destination |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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