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title: The King’s daughter thanked him for the hint, and after he was gone… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s daughter thanked him for the hint, and after he was gone she said to her maidens: ‘Now make every effort to tread firmly on the peas.’ Who acts: daughter, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 30

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The King’s daughter thanked him for the hint, and after he was gone she said to her maidens: ‘Now make every effort to tread firmly on the peas.’

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**Who acts:** daughter, King · **What happens:** thank, be, say, make, tread · **To what, where:** King, maidens, effort, peas · **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 (daughter, King), 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:pg7277:43:30
# text = The King’s daughter thanked him for the hint, and after he was gone she said to her maidens: ‘Now make every effort to tread firmly on the peas.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hint	hint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the King's daughter |  | King |  |  | for the hint | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for hint=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter |  | daughter's maidens |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | every effort |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 5 | **tread** | to-infinitive |  | every effort *not said here* |  | the peas |  | firmly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory |

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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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