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title: At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and father, do not let yourself be deceived by this man. Who acts: man. 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 93

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At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and father, do not let yourself be deceived by this man.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** speak, force, not let, deceive · **To what, where:** last Labakan, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man), 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:pg2435:34:93
# text = At last Labakan spoke with forced calmness, “Most gracious lord and father, do not let yourself be deceived by this man.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	calmness	calmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | last Labakan |  | with forced calmness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with calmness=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deceive** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | this man |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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