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title: Nine suitors had already lost their lives when the King’s son arrive… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nine suitors had already lost their lives when the King’s son arrived, and, dazzled by her beauty, determined to risk his life in hopes of winning her. Who acts: son, hopes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 32

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Nine suitors had already lost their lives when the King’s son arrived, and, dazzled by her beauty, determined to risk his life in hopes of winning her.

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**Who acts:** son, hopes · **What happens:** lose, arrive, dazzle, determine, risk, win · **To what, where:** Nine suitors, life, hopes, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, hopes), 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:pg7277:47:32
# text = Nine suitors had already lost their lives when the King’s son arrived, and, dazzled by her beauty, determined to risk his life in hopes of winning her.
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	by	by	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	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	risk	risk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | Nine suitors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the King's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dazzle** | participle | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Princess's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **determine** | participle | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **risk** | to-infinitive | the King's son *not said here* | son's life |  | hopes |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot |
| 6 | **win** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |

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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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