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title: The prince’s first rage was over, and with tears he cried to the kin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince’s first rage was over, and with tears he cried to the king, “My heart tells me that you are my father, and in my mother’s name I entreat you to hear me.” Who acts: first rage, Prince, heart, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 99

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The prince’s first rage was over, and with tears he cried to the king, “My heart tells me that you are my father, and in my mother’s name I entreat you to hear me.”

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**Who acts:** first rage, Prince, heart, king, mother · **What happens:** be, cry, tell, entreat, hear, rage · **To what, where:** king, Prince, father, name · **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 (first rage, Prince, heart, king), 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:pg2435:34:99
# text = The prince’s first rage was over, and with tears he cried to the king, “My heart tells me that you are my father, and in my mother’s name I entreat you to hear me.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the prince's first rage |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Prince |  | the king |  |  | with tears | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | My heart |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | my father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **entreat** *in a quote* | infinitive | Prince |  | the king *= king* | my mother's name |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 7 | **rage** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **name** *in a quote* |  | my mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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