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title: Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision. Who acts: division, Palace. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with i
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 10

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Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision.

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**Who acts:** division, Palace · **What happens:** seem, promise, come · **To what, where:** civil wars, State, collision

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (division, Palace), 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:pg7277:36:10
# text = Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	collision	collision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | such division |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | such division *not said here* | civil wars and all kinds of troubles | the State |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent war=Theme to state=Goal |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Palace |  |  | collision |  | frequently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into collision=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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