--- title: The king’s son allowed himself to be persuaded and took leave of his… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king’s son allowed himself to be persuaded and took leave of his father-in-law, and set out with his wife on his journey home. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/) / 105 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 105 The king’s son allowed himself to be persuaded and took leave of his father-in-law, and set out with his wife on his journey home. **Who acts:** son · **What happens:** allow, persuade, take, set out, journey · **To what, where:** son, leave, journey This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:37:105 # text = The king’s son allowed himself to be persuaded and took leave of his father-in-law, and set out with his wife on his journey home. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 allowed allow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 persuaded persuade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | past | the king's son | son | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | son *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **take** | past | son *not said here* | leave of law | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | | 4 | **set out** | infinitive | son *not said here* | | | son's journey | | with son's wife; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **journey** | | son | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/104/) - next →: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/1/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/)