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title: It seemed to him that he must be the son of some unknown monarch, an… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to him that he must be the son of some unknown monarch, and at last he determined to set out at once and travel in search of his proper rank. Who acts: It, Prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 37

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It seemed to him that he must be the son of some unknown monarch, and at last he determined to set out at once and travel in search of his proper rank.

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**Who acts:** It, Prince · **What happens:** seem, be, determine, set out, travel, search · **To what, where:** Prince, son, last, search, proper rank

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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: who acts (It, 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:pg2435:34:37
# text = It seemed to him that he must be the son of some unknown monarch, and at last he determined to set out at once and travel in search of his proper rank.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must | Prince | the son |  |  |  | of some unknown monarch | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | past | Prince |  |  | last |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **set out** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **travel** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | search of Prince's proper rank |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | Prince's proper rank |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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