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title: He prayed the Prince of Greece to forgive Laufer, which he did, on c… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He prayed the Prince of Greece to forgive Laufer, which he did, on condition that Lineik would consent to marry him. Who acts: prince, Lineik. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 7

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He prayed the Prince of Greece to forgive Laufer, which he did, on condition that Lineik would consent to marry him.

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**Who acts:** prince, Lineik · **What happens:** pray, forgive, do, consent, marry · **To what, where:** Prince, Laufer, condition

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Lineik), 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:pg2435:24:7
# text = He prayed the Prince of Greece to forgive Laufer, which he did, on condition that Lineik would consent to marry him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	Laufer	Laufer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | prince | the Prince of Greece |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | Laufer |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laufer=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | prince | Laufer |  | condition |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **consent** | would | Lineik | condition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Lineik *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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