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title: The Prince made him a splendid present as a reward for this good new… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince made him a splendid present as a reward for this good news, and at once sent ambassadors to ask the Dear Little Princess in marriage. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 31

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The Prince made him a splendid present as a reward for this good news, and at once sent ambassadors to ask the Dear Little Princess in marriage.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** make, send, ask · **To what, where:** splendid present, man, ambassadors, Dear Little Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg503:3:31
# text = The Prince made him a splendid present as a reward for this good news, and at once sent ambassadors to ask the Dear Little Princess in marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Prince | a splendid present | man |  |  | as a reward for this good news | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary present=Product |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | ambassadors |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  | the Dear Little Princess |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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