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title: As people grew more civilised and had kings and queens, princes and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As people grew more civilised and had kings and queens, princes and princesses, these exalted persons generally were chosen as heroes and heroines. Who acts: people, these. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 16

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As people grew more civilised and had kings and queens, princes and princesses, these exalted persons generally were chosen as heroes and heroines.

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**Who acts:** people, these · **What happens:** grow, civilise, have, exalt, choose · **To what, where:** kings, persons

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, these), 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:pg641:1:16
# text = As people grew more civilised and had kings and queens, princes and princesses, these exalted persons generally were chosen as heroes and heroines.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	civilised	civilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exalted	exalt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	heroines	heroine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **civilise** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | people *not said here* | kings and queens and princes and princesses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 4 | **exalt** | past | these | persons |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 5 | **choose** | past · passive |  | persons *not said here* |  |  |  | as heroes and heroines; generally *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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