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title: But he might as well have stayed there, for any good he was to his f… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he might as well have stayed there, for any good he was to his father, so full was his heart of longing for Wildrose. Who acts: prince, good father, heart. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 35

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But he might as well have stayed there, for any good he was to his father, so full was his heart of longing for Wildrose.

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**Who acts:** prince, good father, heart · **What happens:** stay, be, long · **To what, where:** heart

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, good father, heart), 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:pg2435:10:35
# text = But he might as well have stayed there, for any good he was to his father, so full was his heart of longing for Wildrose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	longing	long	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wildrose	Wildrose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | might · perfect | prince |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | for prince's good father | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | prince's good father | prince's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **long** | gerund | prince's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Wildrose | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for wildrose=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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