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title: The unfortunate prince declared that he had never made any such boas… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The unfortunate prince declared that he had never made any such boast as was reported; but it was all in vain. Who acts: unfortunate prince, prince, boast. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 26

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The unfortunate prince declared that he had never made any such boast as was reported; but it was all in vain.

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**Who acts:** unfortunate prince, prince, boast · **What happens:** declare, not make, report, be · **To what, where:** such boast · **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 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unfortunate prince, prince, boast), 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:pg2435:21:26
# text = The unfortunate prince declared that he had never made any such boast as was reported; but it was all in vain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the unfortunate prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make** | past · perfect | prince | any such boast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Product |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | any such boast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** | past | boast |  |  |  |  | all, vain *property* | tree rules |

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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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