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title: But the prince's condition grew rapidly so much worse that the king,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the prince's condition grew rapidly so much worse that the king, in despair, promised to send an embassy at once to Desiree's father. Who acts: condition, king, prince. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 86

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But the prince's condition grew rapidly so much worse that the king, in despair, promised to send an embassy at once to Desiree's father.

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**Who acts:** condition, king, prince · **What happens:** grow, promise, send, condition · **To what, where:** embassy

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (condition, king, 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:pg3027:22:86
# text = But the prince's condition grew rapidly so much worse that the king, in despair, promised to send an embassy at once to Desiree's father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the prince's condition |  |  |  |  | bad, rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the king and despair |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king and despair *not said here* | a embassy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme |
| 4 | **condition** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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