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title: Hastily the prince awoke his sister Lineik, and they agreed that the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastily the prince awoke his sister Lineik, and they agreed that their father must be dead, and that they must lose no time in obeying his orders and putting themselves in safety. Who acts: Hastily, men, father, Prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 39

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Hastily the prince awoke his sister Lineik, and they agreed that their father must be dead, and that they must lose no time in obeying his orders and putting themselves in safety.

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**Who acts:** Hastily, men, father, Prince · **What happens:** awake, agree, be, lose, obey, put · **To what, where:** sister, orders, men, safety

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hastily, men, father, Prince), 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:pg2435:23:39
# text = Hastily the prince awoke his sister Lineik, and they agreed that their father must be dead, and that they must lose no time in obeying his orders and putting themselves in safety.
1	Hastily	Hastily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Hastily | Prince's sister |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sister=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | must | men's father |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | must | men *= man* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **obey** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | Prince's orders |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | men *= man* |  | safety |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in safety=Destination |
| 7 | **order** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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