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title: The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplicat… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplication to Him who has no needs, and prayed, “O Friend of the traveller! Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 119

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The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplication to Him who has no needs, and prayed, “O Friend of the traveller!

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** read, bare, lift, have, pray · **To what, where:** head, hands, prince, supplication, needs, Friend

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. 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:pg3282:2:119
# text = The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplication to Him who has no needs, and prayed, “O Friend of the traveller!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bared	bare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
26	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bare** | past | the prince *not said here* | prince's head |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **lift** | past | the prince *not said here* | prince's hands | prince | supplication |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in supplication=Destination to he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | no needs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 5 | **pray** | past | the prince *not said here* | Friend of the traveller |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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