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title: The love of the emperor for Iliane waxed greater day by day, but she… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The love of the emperor for Iliane waxed greater day by day, but she paid no heed to him, and always had an excuse ready to put off their marriage. Who acts: love, excuse, mares. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, with its dependency tre
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 54

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The love of the emperor for Iliane waxed greater day by day, but she paid no heed to him, and always had an excuse ready to put off their marriage.

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**Who acts:** love, excuse, mares · **What happens:** wax, pay, have, put off, love, marry · **To what, where:** heed, emperor, excuse, marriage

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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 (love, excuse, 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:pg641:40:54
# text = The love of the emperor for Iliane waxed greater day by day, but she paid no heed to him, and always had an excuse ready to put off their marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | the love of the emperor for Iliane |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | love | no heed | emperor |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | past | the love of the emperor for Iliane *not said here* | a excuse |  |  |  | always, ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient |
| 4 | **put off** | to-infinitive | a excuse *not said here* | mares's marriage |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent marriage=Goal |
| 5 | **love** |  |  | the emperor for Iliane |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **marry** |  | mares *= mare* |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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 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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