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title: So four of the King’s strongest men-at-arms staggered off with it; a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So four of the King’s strongest men-at-arms staggered off with it; and after some persuasion the Queen consented to try this novel remedy. Who acts: four. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 134

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So four of the King’s strongest men-at-arms staggered off with it; and after some persuasion the Queen consented to try this novel remedy.

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**Who acts:** four · **What happens:** stagger off, consent, try · **To what, where:** arms, novel remedy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four), 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:pg7277:11:134
# text = So four of the King’s strongest men-at-arms staggered off with it; and after some persuasion the Queen consented to try this novel remedy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	novel	novel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stagger off** | participle |  | arms *not said here* |  |  |  | with club | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **consent** | past | four of the King's strongest men at arms |  |  |  | after some persuasion |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | four of the King's strongest men at arms *not said here* | this novel remedy |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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