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title: Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to get the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to get their own way it is harder for them to be good than it is for common people. Who acts: it, own way, kings, way. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 7

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Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to get their own way it is harder for them to be good than it is for common people.

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**Who acts:** it, own way, kings, way · **What happens:** happen, manage, get, be

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, own way, kings, way), 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:pg640:11:7
# text = Now it often happens that as princes can generally manage to get their own way it is harder for them to be good than it is for common people.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | it |  |  |  | now | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **manage** | can |  |  |  |  |  | as princes; generally *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | kings's own way |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | kings *= king* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | way |  |  |  |  | than common people | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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