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title: The three princes lived happy and well during their father’s reign,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The three princes lived happy and well during their father’s reign, and always keeping the Black Thief along with them; but how they did after the old King’s death is not known. Who acts: three princes, Princes, old King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 143

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The three princes lived happy and well during their father’s reign, and always keeping the Black Thief along with them; but how they did after the old King’s death is not known.

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**Who acts:** three princes, Princes, old King · **What happens:** live, keep, do, not know, die · **To what, where:** Black Thief

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three princes, Princes, old 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:pg540:8:143
# text = The three princes lived happy and well during their father’s reign, and always keeping the Black Thief along with them; but how they did after the old King’s death is not known.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the three princes |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | the three princes *not said here* | the Black Thief |  |  |  | along Princes *= prince*; always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thief=Theme along they=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past | Princes *= prince* |  |  |  | after the old King's death |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · passive | the three princes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **die** |  | the old King |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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