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title: Celia and Prince Darling reigned for many years, but he was so deter… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Celia and Prince Darling reigned for many years, but he was so determined to govern worthily and to do his duty that his ring, which he took to wearing again, never once pricked him severely. Who acts: Celia, Darling, ring. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 162

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Celia and Prince Darling reigned for many years, but he was so determined to govern worthily and to do his duty that his ring, which he took to wearing again, never once pricked him severely.

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**Who acts:** Celia, Darling, ring · **What happens:** reign, be, govern, do, take, wear · **To what, where:** duty, Darling

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celia, Darling, ring), 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:pg503:39:162
# text = Celia and Prince Darling reigned for many years, but he was so determined to govern worthily and to do his duty that his ring, which he took to wearing again, never once pricked him severely.
1	Celia	Celia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	worthily	worthily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	36	advmod	_	_
36	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past | Celia and Prince Darling |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Darling |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **govern** | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | worthily *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* | Darling's duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 5 | **take** | past | Darling's ring |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wear** | gerund | Darling's ring *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **prick** | past | Darling's ring *not said here* | Darling |  |  |  | once, severely *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |

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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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