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title: She cried out to the prince: “O Prince Almas! what is hardest to get… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She cried out to the prince: “O Prince Almas! what is hardest to get is most valued. Who acts: afruz, Almas. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 57

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She cried out to the prince: “O Prince Almas! what is hardest to get is most valued.

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**Who acts:** afruz, Almas · **What happens:** cry out, be, get, value · **To what, where:** prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (afruz, Almas), 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:pg3282:6:57
# text = She cried out to the prince: “O Prince Almas! what is hardest to get is most valued.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	valued	value	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | afruz |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Almas  Prince |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **value** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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