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title: Now the King, who thought that if she resembled her mother in face a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the King, who thought that if she resembled her mother in face and mind she would need no other gift, never troubled to ask any of the Fairies to her christening, and this offended them mortally, so that they resolved to punish him severely for thus depriving them of their rights. Who acts: King
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 5

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Now the King, who thought that if she resembled her mother in face and mind she would need no other gift, never troubled to ask any of the Fairies to her christening, and this offended them mortally, so that they resolved to punish him severely for thus depriving them of their rights.

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**Who acts:** King, Queen, other gift, this · **What happens:** think, resemble, need, ask, offend, resolve · **To what, where:** mother, face, other gift, any, King, Fairy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King, Queen, other gift, this), 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:pg7277:36:5
# text = Now the King, who thought that if she resembled her mother in face and mind she would need no other gift, never troubled to ask any of the Fairies to her christening, and this offended them mortally, so that they resolved to punish him severely for thus depriving them of their rights.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	christening	christening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
38	offended	offend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	mortally	mortally	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	depriving	deprive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the King |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **resemble** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Queen | Queen's mother |  | face and mind |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | would | Queen | no other gift |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | no other gift *not said here* | any |  |  |  | to Queen's christening | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent any=Recipient |
| 5 | **offend** | past | this | King |  |  |  | mortally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 6 | **resolve** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **punish** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | Fairy |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 8 | **deprive** | gerund | King *not said here* | King |  |  |  | of King's rights; thus *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of right=Theme |
| 9 | **christen** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom christening «act transitive»: 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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