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title: “Gracious prince, I dreamt that if your Royal Highness would grant a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 23

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“Gracious prince, I dreamt that if your Royal Highness would grant all I asked we should get home safe and sound; but if you did not we should certainly be lost.

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**Who acts:** Gracious prince, Royal Highness, I, we, you · **What happens:** dreamt, grant, ask, get, not do, lose · **To what, where:** all, we · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gracious prince, Royal Highness, I, we), 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:pg2435:2:23
# text = “Gracious prince, I dreamt that if your Royal Highness would grant all I asked we should get home safe and sound; but if you did not we should certainly be lost.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **dreamt** *in a quote* | past | Gracious prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | your Royal Highness | all |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | home, safe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lose** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | we |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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