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title: The prince had it in mind that this might be another magician who co… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince had it in mind that this might be another magician who could give him some other shape, but still it seemed best to allow himself to be caught. Who acts: prince, this, magician, it. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

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The prince had it in mind that this might be another magician who could give him some other shape, but still it seemed best to allow himself to be caught.

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**Who acts:** prince, this, magician, it · **What happens:** have, be, give, seem, allow, catch · **To what, where:** pet, mind, magician, other shape, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, this, magician, it), 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:pg3282:3:54
# text = The prince had it in mind that this might be another magician who could give him some other shape, but still it seemed best to allow himself to be caught.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	iobj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the prince | pet |  | mind |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | might | this | another magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | could | another magician | some other shape | prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shape=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  | still | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  | prince |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **catch** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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