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title: The Prince considered that he had earned the kingdom fairly twice ov… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince considered that he had earned the kingdom fairly twice over but still he was too well bred to argue about it, so he just went back to his gorgeous chariot, and, surrounded by his escort, returned to the White Cat faster than he had come. Who acts: Prince, successor. A sentence of «The Blu
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 35

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The Prince considered that he had earned the kingdom fairly twice over but still he was too well bred to argue about it, so he just went back to his gorgeous chariot, and, surrounded by his escort, returned to the White Cat faster than he had come.

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**Who acts:** Prince, successor · **What happens:** consider, earn, breed, argue, go back, surround · **To what, where:** kingdom, successor

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, successor), 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:pg503:24:35
# text = The Prince considered that he had earned the kingdom fairly twice over but still he was too well bred to argue about it, so he just went back to his gorgeous chariot, and, surrounded by his escort, returned to the White Cat faster than he had come.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
48	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **earn** | past · perfect | successor | the kingdom |  |  |  | fairly, over *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **breed** | past · passive |  | successor |  |  | still | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about kingdom | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 5 | **go back** | past | successor |  |  |  |  | to successor's gorgeous chariot *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chariot=Result |
| 6 | **surround** | participle | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **return** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the White Cat *result*; fast *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cat=Result |
| 8 | **come** | past · perfect | successor |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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