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title: In spite of all his father’s and mother’s entreaties, he would not s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of all his father’s and mother’s entreaties, he would not stay, but bade them farewell, saying that he would never see them more, for if he did not find the Princess again he did not think it worth while to live. Who acts: Halvor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Mor
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 117

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In spite of all his father’s and mother’s entreaties, he would not stay, but bade them farewell, saying that he would never see them more, for if he did not find the Princess again he did not think it worth while to live.

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**Who acts:** Halvor · **What happens:** not stay, say, not see, not find, not think, live · **To what, where:** bade, spite, entreaties, Princess, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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:pg540:6:117
# text = In spite of all his father’s and mother’s entreaties, he would not stay, but bade them farewell, saying that he would never see them more, for if he did not find the Princess again he did not think it worth while to live.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | would | Halvor | bade |  | spite of Halvor's father and mother's entreaties |  | farewell *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bade=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Halvor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **see** | would | Halvor | entreaties *= entreaty* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | Halvor | the Princess |  |  | again |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Halvor | bade |  |  |  | worth *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | Halvor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | Halvor's father |  |  |  |  | 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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