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title: With a low bow the prince thanked the emperor for his warning, and p… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a low bow the prince thanked the emperor for his warning, and promised to do his best to keep the sheep safe. Who acts: prince, emperor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 86

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With a low bow the prince thanked the emperor for his warning, and promised to do his best to keep the sheep safe.

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**Who acts:** prince, emperor · **What happens:** thank, promise, do, keep, warn · **To what, where:** emperor, best, sheep

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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, emperor), 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:pg2435:8:86
# text = With a low bow the prince thanked the emperor for his warning, and promised to do his best to keep the sheep safe.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	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	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the prince |  | the emperor |  |  | with a low bow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme for warning=Attribute |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | emperor's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | the sheep |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 5 | **warn** |  | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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