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title: Prince Tahmasp listened to this tale, and then the arrow of love for… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Tahmasp listened to this tale, and then the arrow of love for that unseen girl struck his heart also. Who acts: Tahmasp, arrow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 76

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Prince Tahmasp listened to this tale, and then the arrow of love for that unseen girl struck his heart also.

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**Who acts:** Tahmasp, arrow · **What happens:** listen, strike · **To what, where:** heart

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tahmasp, arrow), 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:pg3282:1:76
# text = Prince Tahmasp listened to this tale, and then the arrow of love for that unseen girl struck his heart also.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Tahmasp	Tahmasp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Tahmasp  Prince |  |  |  |  | to this tale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | the arrow of love for that unseen girl | arrow's heart |  |  | then |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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