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title: What makes you despise all these nice kings? — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What makes you despise all these nice kings? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 19

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What makes you despise all these nice kings?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, despise · **To what, where:** you, nice kings

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg503:5:19
# text = What makes you despise all these nice kings?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **despise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all nice kings |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=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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