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title: Labakan drew it gently out, and hesitated for a moment whether or no… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Labakan drew it gently out, and hesitated for a moment whether or not to plunge it into the heart of the sleeping prince. Who acts: Labakan. 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 60

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Labakan drew it gently out, and hesitated for a moment whether or not to plunge it into the heart of the sleeping prince.

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**Who acts:** Labakan · **What happens:** draw, hesitate, not plunge · **To what, where:** dagger, heart

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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 (Labakan), 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:pg2435:34:60
# text = Labakan drew it gently out, and hesitated for a moment whether or not to plunge it into the heart of the sleeping prince.
1	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Labakan | dagger |  |  |  | out *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **hesitate** | participle | Labakan *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **plunge** | to-infinitive | Labakan *not said here* | dagger |  | the heart of the sleeping prince |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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