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title: ‘Rise, Prince,’ said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Rise, Prince,’ said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 86

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‘Rise, Prince,’ said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch.

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**What happens:** rise, say, touch · **To what, where:** Prince, Fairy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg540:34:86
# text = ‘Rise, Prince,’ said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | infinitive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund |  | prince |  |  |  | with the Golden Branch | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with branch=Instrument |

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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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