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title: A little later she took the prince into a private place and she made… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little later she took the prince into a private place and she made him take an oath of secrecy, and she herself took one and swore, “By Heaven! Who acts: Dilaram, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 72

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A little later she took the prince into a private place and she made him take an oath of secrecy, and she herself took one and swore, “By Heaven!

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**Who acts:** Dilaram, prince · **What happens:** take, make, swear · **To what, where:** prince, private place, oath, one, Heaven

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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 (Dilaram, 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:pg3282:2:72
# text = A little later she took the prince into a private place and she made him take an oath of secrecy, and she herself took one and swore, “By Heaven!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	conj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	By	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Dilaram | the prince |  | a private place |  | late *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into place=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | Dilaram | prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | a oath of secrecy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Dilaram | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **swear** | past | Dilaram *not said here* | Heaven |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Eventuality |

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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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