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title: Then at last the prince drew his good sword and cut off the fox’s he… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at last the prince drew his good sword and cut off the fox’s head, and the next moment a youth stood before him. Who acts: next moment. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 68

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Then at last the prince drew his good sword and cut off the fox’s head, and the next moment a youth stood before him.

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**Who acts:** next moment · **What happens:** draw, cut off, stand · **To what, where:** good sword, head

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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 (next moment), 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:pg5615:15:68
# text = Then at last the prince drew his good sword and cut off the fox’s head, and the next moment a youth stood before him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  | prince's good sword |  |  | then | at the last prince | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **cut off** | participle |  | the fox's head |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the next moment |  |  |  | before fox |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |

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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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