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title: The prince, like the king of Khaistan, determined that he would send… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince, like the king of Khaistan, determined that he would send in return a gift that would be truly royal, and which would perhaps prevent the unknown giver sending him anything more. Who acts: prince, gift. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hear
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 52

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The prince, like the king of Khaistan, determined that he would send in return a gift that would be truly royal, and which would perhaps prevent the unknown giver sending him anything more.

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**Who acts:** prince, gift · **What happens:** determine, send, be, prevent · **To what, where:** gift, return, unknown giver, anything, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (prince, gift), 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:pg3282:34:52
# text = The prince, like the king of Khaistan, determined that he would send in return a gift that would be truly royal, and which would perhaps prevent the unknown giver sending him anything more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | would | prince | a gift |  | return |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme in return=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | would | a gift |  |  |  |  | royal, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **prevent** | would |  | the unknown giver |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer giver=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | gerund |  | anything | prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination anything=Theme |

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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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