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title: Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open-air life,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open-air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by. Who acts: Prince, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 27

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Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open-air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by.

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**Who acts:** Prince, king · **What happens:** love, long, live · **To what, where:** outdoor sports, earliest childhood, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, king), 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:pg3282:30:27
# text = Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open-air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Prince | all outdoor sports and a air life |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus |
| 2 | **long** | past · perfect | king |  |  | king's earliest childhood |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  | entirely *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |

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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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