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title: The Prince when he heard this got up also, and ran after the King, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince when he heard this got up also, and ran after the King, and they had not gone far when they both fell into the river and were never heard of again. Who acts: Prince, this, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 180

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The Prince when he heard this got up also, and ran after the King, and they had not gone far when they both fell into the river and were never heard of again.

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**Who acts:** Prince, this, King · **What happens:** hear, get up, run, not go, fall, not hear · **To what, where:** river · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, this, 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:pg540:22:180
# text = The Prince when he heard this got up also, and ran after the King, and they had not gone far when they both fell into the river and were never heard of again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get up** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | after the King |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | King |  |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
| 6 | **not** **hear** | past · passive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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