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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 81

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But though the emperor was satisfied, Iliane was not, and she determined to revenge herself on the emperor for the dangers which he had caused Fet-Fruners to run.

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**Who acts:** emperor, wish, dangers · **What happens:** be, not be, determine, cause, run · **To what, where:** revenge

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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 (emperor, wish, dangers), 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:pg641:40:81
# text = But though the emperor was satisfied, Iliane was not, and she determined to revenge herself on the emperor for the dangers which he had caused Fet-Fruners to run.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	Fet	Fet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the emperor |  |  |  |  | Iliane *vocative*; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **determine** | past | wish | revenge |  |  |  | on the emperor; for the dangers; wish *obl* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | past · perfect | the dangers |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | the dangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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