--- title: The dread of fresh dangers to his beloved Princess made him devise s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The dread of fresh dangers to his beloved Princess made him devise some more convenient way of meeting than by the garden fountain, and Fairer-than-a-Fairy carried out his plan daily with entire success. Who acts: dread, Fairer, convenient way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread, Fairer, convenient way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:23:77 # text = The dread of fresh dangers to his beloved Princess made him devise some more convenient way of meeting than by the garden fountain, and Fairer-than-a-Fairy carried out his plan daily with entire success. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 dangers danger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 devise devise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 15 convenient convenient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 Fairer Fairer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 33 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 daily daily ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the dread of fresh dangers to dread's beloved Princess | Fairer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **devise** | infinitive | Fairer *not said here* | some convenient way | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 3 | **meet** | gerund | some convenient way *not said here* | | | | | than the garden fountain | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry out** | past | Fairer | Fairer's plan | | | | with entire success; daily *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | | 5 | **dread** | | | fresh dangers to dread's beloved Princess | | | | | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **plan** | | Fairer | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/78/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)