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title: But they would suffer no one to come near them, and the princess was… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they would suffer no one to come near them, and the princess was commanded to perform this service also. Who acts: mares. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 48

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But they would suffer no one to come near them, and the princess was commanded to perform this service also.

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**Who acts:** mares · **What happens:** suffer, come, command, perform · **To what, where:** one, princess, service · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (mares), 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:pg641:40:48
# text = But they would suffer no one to come near them, and the princess was commanded to perform this service also.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | would | mares *= mare* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | mares *= mare* *not said here* | no one *not said here* |  |  |  | near mares *= mare* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location |
| 3 | **command** | past · passive |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **perform** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | this service |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |

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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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