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title: And what vexed him more than all was, that though the young ladies t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And what vexed him more than all was, that though the young ladies throughout all his lands did their best to make the Prince fall in love with them, he would have nothing to say to any of them, and told his father he did not wish to marry. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 6

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And what vexed him more than all was, that though the young ladies throughout all his lands did their best to make the Prince fall in love with them, he would have nothing to say to any of them, and told his father he did not wish to marry.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** vex, make, have, say, tell, not wish · **To what, where:** King, Prince fall, love, nothing, any, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg540:40:6
# text = And what vexed him more than all was, that though the young ladies throughout all his lands did their best to make the Prince fall in love with them, he would have nothing to say to any of them, and told his father he did not wish to marry.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	iobj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | past |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the Prince fall |  | love |  | with ladies *= lady* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fall=Product |
| 3 | **have** | would | King | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | any |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to any=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | King's father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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