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title: At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astoni… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astonished, was fairly terrified, and dropping the book with a crash he sank back insensible. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 41

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At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astonished, was fairly terrified, and dropping the book with a crash he sank back insensible.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** grow, be, drop, sink back · **To what, where:** words, book, crash

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. 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:pg540:34:41
# text = At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astonished, was fairly terrified, and dropping the book with a crash he sank back insensible.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect · progressive | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | this words |  | fairly, terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | gerund |  | the book |  |  |  | with a crash; insensible *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **sink back** | past | prince | a crash *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crash=Patient |

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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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