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title: But the prince prayed so hard for leave to make the search, and prom… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the prince prayed so hard for leave to make the search, and promised so often that he would be very cautious and careful, that at length the emperor gave him permission, and ordered the best horse in the stables to be saddled for him. Who acts: prince, son, that. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 43

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But the prince prayed so hard for leave to make the search, and promised so often that he would be very cautious and careful, that at length the emperor gave him permission, and ordered the best horse in the stables to be saddled for him.

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**Who acts:** prince, son, that · **What happens:** pray, make, promise, be, give, order · **To what, where:** search, permission, emperor, length, best horse, stables · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, son, that), 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:pg2435:8:43
# text = But the prince prayed so hard for leave to make the search, and promised so often that he would be very cautious and careful, that at length the emperor gave him permission, and ordered the best horse in the stables to be saddled for him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | for leave; hard *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for leave=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | the search |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | son |  |  |  |  | cautious, often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | past | that | permission | emperor | length |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient permission=Theme at length=Asset |
| 7 | **order** | past |  |  | the best horse | the stables |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 8 | **saddle** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for emperor | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |

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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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