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title: Lolotte took his reproaches meekly, and promised faithfully that she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lolotte took his reproaches meekly, and promised faithfully that she would not encourage the Princess in her idleness and indifference any more. Who acts: Lolotte, Placida. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 18

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Lolotte took his reproaches meekly, and promised faithfully that she would not encourage the Princess in her idleness and indifference any more.

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**Who acts:** Lolotte, Placida · **What happens:** take, promise, not encourage · **To what, where:** reproaches, Princess, idleness

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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 (Lolotte, Placida), 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:pg7277:36:18
# text = Lolotte took his reproaches meekly, and promised faithfully that she would not encourage the Princess in her idleness and indifference any more.
1	Lolotte	Lolotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	meekly	meekly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	encourage	encourage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	indifference	indifference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	any	any	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Lolotte | Lolotte's reproaches |  |  |  | meekly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Lolotte *not said here* |  |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **encourage** *not said to happen* | would | Placida | the Princess |  | Placida's idleness and indifference |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 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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