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title: The princess welcomed the boy back joyfully, but the poor youth was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess welcomed the boy back joyfully, but the poor youth was not allowed to rest long in peace, for one day a fresh letter arrived from the Sultan, saying that he had discovered that the young man was a very dangerous person, and that he must be sent to Turkey at once, and alone. Who acts: pr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 9

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The princess welcomed the boy back joyfully, but the poor youth was not allowed to rest long in peace, for one day a fresh letter arrived from the Sultan, saying that he had discovered that the young man was a very dangerous person, and that he must be sent to Turkey at once, and alone.

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**Who acts:** princess, poor youth, fresh letter, letter, young man · **What happens:** welcome, not allow, rest, arrive, say, discover · **To what, where:** boy, poor youth, peace, Sultan, dangerous person, man · **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 (princess, poor youth, fresh letter, letter), 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:pg2435:8:9
# text = The princess welcomed the boy back joyfully, but the poor youth was not allowed to rest long in peace, for one day a fresh letter arrived from the Sultan, saying that he had discovered that the young man was a very dangerous person, and that he must be sent to Turkey at once, and alone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | past | the princess | the boy |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | the poor youth |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the poor youth *not said here* |  |  | peace |  | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | a fresh letter |  |  | the Sultan | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sultan=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a fresh letter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **discover** | past · perfect | letter |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the young man | a dangerous person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **send** | must · passive |  | man | Turkey |  |  | alone *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to turkey=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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