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title: The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, biddin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 11

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The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** go round, lock up, bid, take, hunt · **To what, where:** these, bodies, mother, care

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. 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:pg2435:15:11
# text = The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | past | the prince | these |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lock up** | past | the prince *not said here* | bodies *= body* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | prince's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of the keys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of key=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **hunt** | past · progressive | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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 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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