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title: The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers to make Celia a prisoner and carry her off to his palace. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 63

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The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers to make Celia a prisoner and carry her off to his palace.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** be, command, make, carry off · **To what, where:** speech, officers, Celia, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. 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:pg503:39:63
# text = The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers to make Celia a prisoner and carry her off to his palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	Celia	Celia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prince |  |  | this speech |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** | past | the Prince *not said here* | prince's officers |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | Celia |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset celia=Product |
| 4 | **carry off** | infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | Celia |  | prince's palace |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |

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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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