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title: But all the Prince’s guards were so fond of him that they did everyt… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all the Prince’s guards were so fond of him that they did everything they dared, in spite of the King, to make the time pass pleasantly. Who acts: guards. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 31

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But all the Prince’s guards were so fond of him that they did everything they dared, in spite of the King, to make the time pass pleasantly.

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**Who acts:** guards · **What happens:** be, do, dare, make, pass, spite · **To what, where:** everything, spite, King

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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: who acts (guards), 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:pg540:34:31
# text = But all the Prince’s guards were so fond of him that they did everything they dared, in spite of the King, to make the time pass pleasantly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prince's guards |  |  |  |  | of prince; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | guards *= guard* | everything |  | spite of the King |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dare** | past | guards *= guard* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | pleasantly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | the King |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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