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title: But the prince answered, “Oh, ho! my good dragon, do not crow too so… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the prince answered, “Oh, ho! my good dragon, do not crow too soon! Who acts: prince. 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 95

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But the prince answered, “Oh, ho! my good dragon, do not crow too soon!

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** answer, not crow · **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), 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:pg2435:8:95
# text = But the prince answered, “Oh, ho! my good dragon, do not crow too soon!
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	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	crow	crow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **crow** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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