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title: At the same time, he felt sure that had he been in the prince’s plac… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time, he felt sure that had he been in the prince’s place any royal father might have been glad to own him. Who acts: friend, that, royal father. 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 c
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 56

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At the same time, he felt sure that had he been in the prince’s place any royal father might have been glad to own him.

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**Who acts:** friend, that, royal father · **What happens:** feel, have, be, own · **To what, where:** place, friend

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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 (friend, that, royal father), 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:pg2435:34:56
# text = At the same time, he felt sure that had he been in the prince’s place any royal father might have been glad to own him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | friend |  |  |  | time | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle | friend |  |  | the prince's place |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | might · perfect | any royal father | the prince's place *not said here* |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **own** | to-infinitive | any royal father *not said here* | friend |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

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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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