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title: The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment, and as she… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment, and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage. Who acts: prince, 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 62

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The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment, and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage.

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**Who acts:** prince, Almas · **What happens:** give, be, take · **To what, where:** ear, argument, lovely maiden, Almas, lawful marriage

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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 (prince, 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:pg3282:6:62
# text = The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment, and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pre-ordainment	pre-ordainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the prince | ear | the argument from pre-ordainment |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to argument=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Almas | a lovely maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | Prince | Almas |  | lawful marriage |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in marriage=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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