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title: How delighted they were to meet again, and to hear all that the prin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How delighted they were to meet again, and to hear all that the prince had done to deliver them from their enchantment. Who acts: brothers, prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 57

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How delighted they were to meet again, and to hear all that the prince had done to deliver them from their enchantment.

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**Who acts:** brothers, prince · **What happens:** meet, hear, do, deliver, enchant · **To what, where:** brothers, enchantment · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, 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:pg2435:9:57
# text = How delighted they were to meet again, and to hear all that the prince had done to deliver them from their enchantment.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  | brothers's enchantment |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from enchantment=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **enchant** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling 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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