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title: And the stranger took the little piece, and the heart of the king’s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the stranger took the little piece, and the heart of the king’s son was glad within him, for at last he had found the friend he had been looking for. Who acts: stranger, heart, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree a
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 69

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And the stranger took the little piece, and the heart of the king’s son was glad within him, for at last he had found the friend he had been looking for.

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**Who acts:** stranger, heart, son · **What happens:** take, be, find, look · **To what, where:** little piece, friend

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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 (stranger, heart, son), 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:pg2435:37:69
# text = And the stranger took the little piece, and the heart of the king’s son was glad within him, for at last he had found the friend he had been looking for.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux	_	_
33	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the stranger | the little piece |  |  |  | for last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent piece=Theme for last=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | the heart of the king's son |  |  |  |  | within son; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | son | the friend |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | son | the friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Attribute |

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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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