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title: As the prince had expected the peas had taken root, and grown into a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the prince had expected the peas had taken root, and grown into a little hedge, so that they were sure they would not lose the path. Who acts: prince, peas. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 121

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As the prince had expected the peas had taken root, and grown into a little hedge, so that they were sure they would not lose the path.

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**Who acts:** prince, peas · **What happens:** expect, take, grow, be, not lose · **To what, where:** root, little hedge, path

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince, peas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:859`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:10:121
# text = As the prince had expected the peas had taken root, and grown into a little hedge, so that they were sure they would not lose the path.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past · perfect | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | the peas | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle | the peas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a little hedge *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hedge=Result |
| 4 | **is** | past | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | would | peas *= pea* | the path |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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