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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 19

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As King Grumpy was not used to being contradicted in anything, he was very much displeased with his son, and ordered that he should be imprisoned in the tower that was kept on purpose for rebellious Princes, but had not been used for about two hundred years, because there had not been any.

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**What happens:** not use, contradict, displease, order, imprison, keep · **To what, where:** anything, King, tower, purpose, any

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:34:19
# text = As King Grumpy was not used to being contradicted in anything, he was very much displeased with his son, and ordered that he should be imprisoned in the tower that was kept on purpose for rebellious Princes, but had not been used for about two hundred years, because there had not been any.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	NNP	_	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	contradicted	contradict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	about	about	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	compound	_	_
49	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	54	expl	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
56	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
57	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as Grumpy  King | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **contradict** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | anything |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **displease** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  | with King's son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **order** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **imprison** | should · passive |  | King |  | the tower |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tower=Destination |
| 6 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the tower |  | purpose |  | for rebellious Princes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on purpose=Location |
| 7 | **not** **use** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 8 | **have** | past |  | any |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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