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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 46

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The prince had no sooner grown out of boyhood than he prevailed on his father to make war during the summer months on a neighbouring nation, so as to give him a chance of making himself famous.

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**Who acts:** prince, chance · **What happens:** have, grow out, prevail, make, neighbour, give · **To what, where:** boyhood, war, neighbouring nation, chance, Prince

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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 (prince, chance), 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:pg2435:23:46
# text = The prince had no sooner grown out of boyhood than he prevailed on his father to make war during the summer months on a neighbouring nation, so as to give him a chance of making himself famous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow out** | participle | the prince *not said here* | boyhood |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boyhood=Theme |
| 3 | **prevail** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | on Prince's father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on father=Location |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | war |  | a neighbouring nation | month |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
| 5 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | a chance | Prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chance=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | gerund | a chance *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |

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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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