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title: As they parted, father Peter’s last commands to Friedlin were to gua… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they parted, father Peter’s last commands to Friedlin were to guard well their secret, and not even to tell it to Lucia till she was his wife. Who acts: words, last commands, bride, father Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its depe
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 88

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As they parted, father Peter’s last commands to Friedlin were to guard well their secret, and not even to tell it to Lucia till she was his wife.

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**Who acts:** words, last commands, bride, father Peter · **What happens:** part, guard, not tell, be, command · **To what, where:** secret, Lucia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, last commands, bride, father Peter), 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:pg2435:17:88
# text = As they parted, father Peter’s last commands to Friedlin were to guard well their secret, and not even to tell it to Lucia till she was his wife.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **guard** | past | father Peter's last commands to Friedlin | words's secret |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | father Peter's last commands to Friedlin *not said here* | secret | Lucia |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to lucia=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | bride |  |  |  | till Friedlin's wife |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** |  | father Peter |  |  |  |  | to Friedlin | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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