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title: As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle. 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 cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 17

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As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** last, not hunt, be, explore · **To what, where:** keys, many days, castle

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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:pg2435:15:17
# text = As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | to-infinitive |  | keys *= key* |  |  | day |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |
| 2 | **not** **hunt** | past · do-support | the prince | many days *not said here* |  |  | morning |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | begin, instead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **explore** | to-infinitive |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Location |

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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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