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title: They all three resolved that its contents must be kept a profound se… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all three resolved that its contents must be kept a profound secret until they could decide what reply should be sent, but Mousta contrived to send word of all that had passed to Prince Mannikin. Who acts: Farda, Mousta. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3,
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 51

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They all three resolved that its contents must be kept a profound secret until they could decide what reply should be sent, but Mousta contrived to send word of all that had passed to Prince Mannikin.

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**Who acts:** Farda, Mousta · **What happens:** resolve, keep, decide, send, contrive, pass · **To what, where:** contents, reply, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Farda, Mousta), 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:pg7277:16:51
# text = They all three resolved that its contents must be kept a profound secret until they could decide what reply should be sent, but Mousta contrived to send word of all that had passed to Prince Mannikin.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
19	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	appos	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl:agent	_	_
37	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Farda |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | must · passive |  | insolence's contents |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme secret=Attribute |
| 3 | **decide** | could | Farda |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** | should · passive |  | what reply |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **contrive** | past | Mousta |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | to-infinitive | Mousta *not said here* | word |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 7 | **pass** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of that | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of that=Initial\_Location |

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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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