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title: The King of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even gran… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even grant them this favour, but at last he was persuaded to do so. Who acts: King, accusation. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 200

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The King of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even grant them this favour, but at last he was persuaded to do so.

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**Who acts:** King, accusation · **What happens:** be, grant, persuade, do · **To what, where:** favour, King, accusation, last

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, accusation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1143`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:11:200
# text = The King of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even grant them this favour, but at last he was persuaded to do so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King of the Peacocks |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** | would | accusation | this favour | King |  |  | hardly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal favour=Theme |
| 3 | **persuade** | past · passive |  | accusation |  | last |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | accusation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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