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title: The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mother and a great train of courtiers to escort Ilonka home. Who acts: prince. 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 70

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The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mother and a great train of courtiers to escort Ilonka home.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** return, bring, escort · **To what, where:** father, Ilonka

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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 (prince), 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:pg2435:1:70
# text = The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mother and a great train of courtiers to escort Ilonka home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
22	Ilonka	Ilonka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | before, long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  | Prince's father and mother and a great train of courtiers |  |  | with Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination |
| 3 | **escort** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | Ilonka |  |  |  | home *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilonka=Theme |

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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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