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title: “Praised be the Prophet who has preserved you! replied the old man w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Praised be the Prophet who has preserved you! replied the old man with tears of joy. Who acts: Praised Prophet. 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 81

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“Praised be the Prophet who has preserved you! replied the old man with tears of joy.

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**Who acts:** Praised Prophet · **What happens:** praise, be, preserve, reply · **To what, where:** Praised Prophet, you, old man

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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 (Praised Prophet), 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:pg2435:34:81
# text = “Praised be the Prophet who has preserved you! replied the old man with tears of joy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Praised Prophet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **preserve** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Praised Prophet |  | you |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  | with tears of joy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |

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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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