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title: That they might be able to write to each other in confidence, he had… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That they might be able to write to each other in confidence, he had two seal rings made, one for himself and one for his young queen, and issued an order that no one, under pain of death, was to open any letter that was sealed with one of these. Who acts: That, king, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 46

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That they might be able to write to each other in confidence, he had two seal rings made, one for himself and one for his young queen, and issued an order that no one, under pain of death, was to open any letter that was sealed with one of these.

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**Who acts:** That, king, one · **What happens:** be, write, have, make, issue, seal · **To what, where:** each, confidence, two seal rings, order, letter, death

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, king, one), 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:pg5615:33:46
# text = That they might be able to write to each other in confidence, he had two seal rings made, one for himself and one for his young queen, and issued an order that no one, under pain of death, was to open any letter that was sealed with one of these.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
47	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
48	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | That |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* |  | each | confidence |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | king | two seal rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | two seal rings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **issue** | past | king *not said here* | a order |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | no one | a order *not said here* |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **seal** | past · passive |  | any letter |  |  |  | with one of these | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with one=Instrument |
| 8 | **pain** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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 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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