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title: He was called Charming, and everyone loved him, excepting a few envi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 14

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He was called Charming, and everyone loved him, excepting a few envious people who were angry at his being the King’s favorite and knowing all the State secrets.

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**Who acts:** everyone, few envious people · **What happens:** call, love, except, be, know · **To what, where:** ambassador, few envious people, favorite, State secrets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, few envious people), 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:pg503:28:14
# text = He was called Charming, and everyone loved him, excepting a few envious people who were angry at his being the King’s favorite and knowing all the State secrets.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	favorite	favorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **love** | past | everyone | ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **except** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | a few envious people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a few envious people |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | ambassador's favorite |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | all State secrets |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |

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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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