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title: The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromeda… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 105

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The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him.

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**What happens:** tie, fasten, keep · **To what, where:** unlucky prince, sharp look out

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:34:105
# text = The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dromedary	dromedary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · passive |  | the unlucky prince |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient hand=Result |
| 2 | **fasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on a dromedary | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on dromedary=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund |  | a sharp look out |  |  |  | on Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out=Theme on he=Location |

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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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