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title: From his earliest childhood he heard nothing but stories of princes… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From his earliest childhood he heard nothing but stories of princes who had fallen into all sorts of troubles through love; and she drew such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid that the young man had no difficulty in believing that he was the root of all evil. Who acts: he, princes, she, young m
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 3

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From his earliest childhood he heard nothing but stories of princes who had fallen into all sorts of troubles through love; and she drew such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid that the young man had no difficulty in believing that he was the root of all evil.

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**Who acts:** he, princes, she, young man, difficulty, man · **What happens:** hear, fall, draw, have, believe, be · **To what, where:** nothing, earliest childhood, sorts, such terrible pictures, difficulty, root · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, princes, she, young man), 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:pg640:16:3
# text = From his earliest childhood he heard nothing but stories of princes who had fallen into all sorts of troubles through love; and she drew such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid that the young man had no difficulty in believing that he was the root of all evil.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	ccomp	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | he | nothing |  | his earliest childhood |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from childhood=Source |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | princes |  |  | all sorts of troubles |  | through love | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sort=Initial\_Location through love=Destination |
| 3 | **draw** | past | she | such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the young man | no difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient |
| 5 | **believe** | gerund | no difficulty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past | man | the root |  |  |  | of all evil | tree rules |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | troubles |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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 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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