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title: He longed to know how the prince had escaped, and said: “My dear son… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He longed to know how the prince had escaped, and said: “My dear son, I do indeed rejoice to have you safely back, but I cannot imagine why the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes I sent did not please you; why you had them destroyed.” Who acts: king, dear son, beautiful carriage, you. A sente
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 42

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He longed to know how the prince had escaped, and said: “My dear son, I do indeed rejoice to have you safely back, but I cannot imagine why the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes I sent did not please you; why you had them destroyed.”

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**Who acts:** king, dear son, beautiful carriage, you, prince · **What happens:** long, know, escape, say, rejoice, have · **To what, where:** prince, you, beautiful carriage · **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 (king, dear son, beautiful carriage, you), 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:pg2435:2:42
# text = He longed to know how the prince had escaped, and said: “My dear son, I do indeed rejoice to have you safely back, but I cannot imagine why the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes I sent did not please you; why you had them destroyed.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **escape** | past · perfect · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **rejoice** *in a quote* | present · do-support | My dear son |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | My dear son *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **imagine** *in a quote* | can | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **send** *in a quote* | past | king | the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **please** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the beautiful carriage and the splendid robes | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 10 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **destroy** *in a quote* | participle | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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