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title: Surcantine, therefore, resolved that she would bring up a Prince who… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Surcantine, therefore, resolved that she would bring up a Prince whom nothing could make constant. Who acts: Surcantine, whichever, nothing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 101

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Surcantine, therefore, resolved that she would bring up a Prince whom nothing could make constant.

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**Who acts:** Surcantine, whichever, nothing · **What happens:** resolve, bring up, make · **To what, where:** Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Surcantine, whichever, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:604`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:8:101
# text = Surcantine, therefore, resolved that she would bring up a Prince whom nothing could make constant.
1	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Surcantine |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | would | whichever | a Prince |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | could | nothing | a Prince |  |  |  | constant *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material whom=Product |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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