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title: Then the King remembered his royal oath; but he made up his mind tha… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King remembered his royal oath; but he made up his mind that he would never consent to let the Princess marry a poor peasant. Who acts: King, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 78

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Then the King remembered his royal oath; but he made up his mind that he would never consent to let the Princess marry a poor peasant.

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**Who acts:** King, Princess · **What happens:** remember, make up, not consent, let, marry, mind · **To what, where:** royal oath, mind, Princess, poor peasant

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess), 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:pg640:35:78
# text = Then the King remembered his royal oath; but he made up his mind that he would never consent to let the Princess marry a poor peasant.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | the King | King's royal oath |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | past | King | King's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **not** **consent** | would | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | a poor peasant |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Patient |
| 6 | **mind** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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