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title: She had fixed upon the son of a king who was cousin to Bardondon, to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had fixed upon the son of a king who was cousin to Bardondon, to bring up as her fickle Prince. Who acts: king. 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 126

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She had fixed upon the son of a king who was cousin to Bardondon, to bring up as her fickle Prince.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** fix, be, bring up · **To what, where:** girl, cousin, Bardondon

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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 (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:pg7277:8:126
# text = She had fixed upon the son of a king who was cousin to Bardondon, to bring up as her fickle Prince.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Bardondon	Bardondon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  | upon the son of a king | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a king | cousin | Bardondon |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as girl's fickle Prince | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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