--- title: The prince ordered a boat to be lowered, and went on shore to look a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The prince ordered a boat to be lowered, and went on shore to look about him, and it was not long before he noticed the two beautiful trees, quite different from any that grew in Greece. Who acts: prince, boat, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, boat, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:23:63 # text = The prince ordered a boat to be lowered, and went on shore to look about him, and it was not long before he noticed the two beautiful trees, quite different from any that grew in Greece. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 lowered lower VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 37 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past | the prince | a boat | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent boat=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **lower** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a boat *not said here* | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **go** | past | the prince *not said here* | | | shore | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | | | | | about Prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | boat | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **notice** | past | Prince | the two beautiful trees | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 7 | **grow** | past | that | | | Greece | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/64/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/)