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title: When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as usual, they went into his room, and not finding him there, were very much alarmed, and searched the tower from turret to dungeon, but without success. Who acts: guards, Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 3

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When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as usual, they went into his room, and not finding him there, were very much alarmed, and searched the tower from turret to dungeon, but without success.

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**Who acts:** guards, Prince · **What happens:** find, not ask, go, not find, alarm, search · **To what, where:** room, Prince, tower, turret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, 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:pg540:35:3
# text = When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as usual, they went into his room, and not finding him there, were very much alarmed, and searched the tower from turret to dungeon, but without success.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	dungeon	dungeon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the guards |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the Prince |  |  |  |  | for Prince's supper; as usual | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | guards *= guard* |  |  | Prince's room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **find** | gerund | guards *= guard* *not said here* | Prince |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 5 | **alarm** | past · passive | guards *= guard* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **search** | past | guards *= guard* *not said here* | the tower |  | turret |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tower=Location |
| 7 | **dungeon** | to-infinitive | guards *= guard* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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