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title: And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little blac… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little black Cricket, whose only idea would have been to find himself a cosy cranny behind some blazing hearth, if he had not luckily remembered the Fairy Douceline’s injunction to seek the Golden Branch. Who acts: handsome Peerless, idea, Pee
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 50

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And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little black Cricket, whose only idea would have been to find himself a cosy cranny behind some blazing hearth, if he had not luckily remembered the Fairy Douceline’s injunction to seek the Golden Branch.

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**Who acts:** handsome Peerless, idea, Peerless, Fairy Douceline · **What happens:** become, find, be, blaze, not remember, seek · **To what, where:** poor little black Cricket, Peerless, cosy cranny, blazing hearth, injunction, Golden Branch

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome Peerless, idea, Peerless, Fairy Douceline), 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:pg540:36:50
# text = And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little black Cricket, whose only idea would have been to find himself a cosy cranny behind some blazing hearth, if he had not luckily remembered the Fairy Douceline’s injunction to seek the Golden Branch.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cranny	cranny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Douceline	Douceline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	injunction	injunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the handsome Peerless  Prince | a poor little black Cricket |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | a cosy cranny's idea *not said here* | Peerless |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | would · perfect | a cosy cranny's idea | a cosy cranny |  | some blazing hearth |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **remember** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Peerless | the Fairy Douceline's injunction |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent injunction=Theme |
| 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Peerless *not said here* | the Golden Branch |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 7 | **enjoin** |  | the Fairy Douceline |  |  |  |  |  | nom injunction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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