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title: Fortunately one of the King’s servants had become very partial to th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately one of the King’s servants had become very partial to the young huntsmen, and hearing of the trial they were to be put to, he went to them and said: ‘The Lion wants to persuade the King that you are only girls’; and then told them all the plot. Who acts: one, King, Lion, you. A sentence 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 29

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Fortunately one of the King’s servants had become very partial to the young huntsmen, and hearing of the trial they were to be put to, he went to them and said: ‘The Lion wants to persuade the King that you are only girls’; and then told them all the plot.

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**Who acts:** one, King, Lion, you, trial · **What happens:** become, put, go, say, want, persuade · **To what, where:** peas, King, girls, plot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King, Lion, you), 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:pg7277:43:29
# text = Fortunately one of the King’s servants had become very partial to the young huntsmen, and hearing of the trial they were to be put to, he went to them and said: ‘The Lion wants to persuade the King that you are only girls’; and then told them all the plot.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
53	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	_
55	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	57	det:predet	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | one |  |  |  |  | of the King's servants; partial *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive | one *not said here* | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **go** | past | King |  | peas *= pea* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **want** | present | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Lion *not said here* | the King |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | you | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* | all plot | peas *= pea* |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plot=Topic |
| 9 | **hear** |  | the trial |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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