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description: At last he gave consent, and ordered out his royal yacht, with 100 cross-bows, 100 knights, and 1,000 soldiers, to escort the Princess Helena. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 90

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At last he gave consent, and ordered out his royal yacht, with 100 cross-bows, 100 knights, and 1,000 soldiers, to escort the Princess Helena.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give, order out, escort · **To what, where:** consent, last, royal yacht, Princess Helena

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2435:5:90
# text = At last he gave consent, and ordered out his royal yacht, with 100 cross-bows, 100 knights, and 1,000 soldiers, to escort the Princess Helena.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	yacht	yacht	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cross-bows	cross-bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | king | consent |  | last |  | with 100 cross-bows and 100 knights and 1,000 soldiers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent consent=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **order out** | participle | king *not said here* | king's royal yacht |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yacht=Theme |
| 3 | **escort** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the Princess Helena |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helena=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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