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title: The Princes, now that the cause of their dispute was removed, put up… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princes, now that the cause of their dispute was removed, put up their swords, kissed each other affectionately, and returned to their father. Who acts: Princes, feuds. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 65

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The Princes, now that the cause of their dispute was removed, put up their swords, kissed each other affectionately, and returned to their father.

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**Who acts:** Princes, feuds · **What happens:** remove, put up, kiss, return, cause, dispute · **To what, where:** cause, swords, Princes, dispute

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, feuds), 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:pg7277:29:65
# text = The Princes, now that the cause of their dispute was removed, put up their swords, kissed each other affectionately, and returned to their father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past · passive | the Princes *not said here* | the cause of feuds's dispute |  |  | now |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **put up** | infinitive | the Princes *not said here* | feuds's swords |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sword=Goal |
| 3 | **kiss** | participle · passive |  | the Princes |  |  |  | affectionately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to feuds's father *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | feuds's dispute |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **dispute** |  | feuds *= feud* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: 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 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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