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title: The prince knew that it was his two brothers who had thus forfeited… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince knew that it was his two brothers who had thus forfeited their lives and it cut him to the heart to think that two princes should suffer such a shameful death; and, as he had sufficient money with him, he paid their debts, and so ransomed their lives. Who acts: prince, life, two princes. 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 51

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The prince knew that it was his two brothers who had thus forfeited their lives and it cut him to the heart to think that two princes should suffer such a shameful death; and, as he had sufficient money with him, he paid their debts, and so ransomed their lives.

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**Who acts:** prince, life, two princes · **What happens:** know, be, forfeit, cut, think, suffer · **To what, where:** two brothers, prince, shameful death, sufficient money, debts, lives · **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, life, two princes), 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:pg5615:15:51
# text = The prince knew that it was his two brothers who had thus forfeited their lives and it cut him to the heart to think that two princes should suffer such a shameful death; and, as he had sufficient money with him, he paid their debts, and so ransomed their lives.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	forfeited	forfeit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
30	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
40	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	ransomed	ransom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	parataxis	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | life | prince's two brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forfeit** | past · perfect · passive |  | prince's two brothers |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | past | life | prince |  |  |  | to the heart *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Instrument he=Patient to heart=Result |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **suffer** | should | two princes | such shameful death |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** | past | prince | sufficient money |  |  |  | with heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 8 | **pay** | past | prince | gallows's debts |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
| 9 | **ransom** | participle |  | gallows's lives |  |  |  |  | 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 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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