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title: He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 105

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He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** bade, order, marry, act, absent, return · **To what, where:** son act, absence, king, account

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. 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:pg2435:1:105
# text = He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Regent	Regent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | king | king's son act |  | king's absence |  | as Regent | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | king | no account |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | till king's return |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **act** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **absent** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **return** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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