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title: The princess made some difficulties, but, as the weather was lovely… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess made some difficulties, but, as the weather was lovely and very still, she at last consented to the king’s wishes. Who acts: princess, weather, last, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 125

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The princess made some difficulties, but, as the weather was lovely and very still, she at last consented to the king’s wishes.

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**Who acts:** princess, weather, last, king · **What happens:** make, be, consent, wish · **To what, where:** difficulties

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, weather, last, 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:pg5615:29:125
# text = The princess made some difficulties, but, as the weather was lovely and very still, she at last consented to the king’s wishes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj:outer	_	_
21	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the princess | some difficulties |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consent** | participle | last |  |  |  |  | to the king's wishes | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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