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title: The prince went into the castle, and did with the grains of gold as… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince went into the castle, and did with the grains of gold as the fox had told him, so that sleep fell upon everyone there; but when he had taken the princess into his arms he forgot the fox’s warning, at the sight of her beauty, and kissed her. Who acts: prince, sleep, fox. A sentence of «The
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21

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The prince went into the castle, and did with the grains of gold as the fox had told him, so that sleep fell upon everyone there; but when he had taken the princess into his arms he forgot the fox’s warning, at the sight of her beauty, and kissed her.

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**Who acts:** prince, sleep, fox · **What happens:** go, do, tell, fall, take, forget · **To what, where:** castle, fox, prince, everyone, princess, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sleep, fox), 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:pg5615:15:21
# text = The prince went into the castle, and did with the grains of gold as the fox had told him, so that sleep fell upon everyone there; but when he had taken the princess into his arms he forgot the fox’s warning, at the sight of her beauty, and kissed her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the prince |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the grains of gold | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the fox | prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 4 | **fall** | past | that sleep |  |  | everyone |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon everyone=Location |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect | prince | the princess |  | prince's arms |  | at the sight of princess's beauty | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into arm=Destination |
| 6 | **forget** | past | prince | the fox's warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kiss** | past |  | princess |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **warn** |  | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sight** |  |  | princess's beauty |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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