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title: With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terr… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terrific a voice that the mother hastened to the well to draw her prisoner out. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 3

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With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terrific a voice that the mother hastened to the well to draw her prisoner out.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** demand, hasten, draw out · **To what, where:** Lizina, terrific voice, mother, well, prisoner

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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 (prince), 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:pg2435:37:3
# text = With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terrific a voice that the mother hastened to the well to draw her prisoner out.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | prince | Lizina |  | a terrific voice and the mother |  | with prince's hand on the hilt of prince's sword | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lizina=Precondition |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  | the mother *not said here* |  | the well |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to well=Destination |
| 3 | **draw out** | to-infinitive |  | Lizina's prisoner |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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