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title: The prince heard this in silence, and presently so beguiled the king… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince heard this in silence, and presently so beguiled the king with pleasant talk that to kill him was impossible. Who acts: prince, pleasant talk, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 12

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The prince heard this in silence, and presently so beguiled the king with pleasant talk that to kill him was impossible.

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**Who acts:** prince, pleasant talk, king · **What happens:** hear, beguile, kill, be · **To what, where:** this, silence, king

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pleasant talk, 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:pg3282:5:12
# text = The prince heard this in silence, and presently so beguiled the king with pleasant talk that to kill him was impossible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	beguiled	beguile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the prince | this |  | silence |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **beguile** | participle | the prince *not said here* | the king |  |  |  | with pleasant talk; presently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | pleasant talk |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |

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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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