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title: The prince wrote down the answers to his questions, took a friendly… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince wrote down the answers to his questions, took a friendly leave of Lucky Luck, and set off for home. Who acts: prince, miller. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 118

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The prince wrote down the answers to his questions, took a friendly leave of Lucky Luck, and set off for home.

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**Who acts:** prince, miller · **What happens:** write down, take, set off, question · **To what, where:** answers, friendly leave

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, miller), 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:pg2435:2:118
# text = The prince wrote down the answers to his questions, took a friendly leave of Lucky Luck, and set off for home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Luck	Luck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | past | the prince | the answers to miller's questions |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the prince *not said here* | a friendly leave of Lucky |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **set off** | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **question** |  | miller |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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