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title: Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be brought up by fairies, who loved them as their own children, and did not mind what inconvenience they put other people to for their sakes, for all the world as if they had been real mothers. Who acts: end, fairies, inconvenience. A
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14

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Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be brought up by fairies, who loved them as their own children, and did not mind what inconvenience they put other people to for their sakes, for all the world as if they had been real mothers.

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**Who acts:** end, fairies, inconvenience · **What happens:** be, bring up, love, not mind, put · **To what, where:** custom, fairies, other people

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, fairies, inconvenience), 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:pg5615:30:14
# text = Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be brought up by fairies, who loved them as their own children, and did not mind what inconvenience they put other people to for their sakes, for all the world as if they had been real mothers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
33	inconvenience	inconvenience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	xcomp	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	sakes	sake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
51	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	cop	_	_
52	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | end | the custom |  |  | now; day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive · passive | fairies |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | past | fairies | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  | as fairies's own children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for all world | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **put** | past | inconvenience |  | other people |  |  | for fairies's sakes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Asset people=Goal |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  | as real mothers | tree rules |

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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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