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title: After repeating this many times, he became quite frightened, but, ca… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After repeating this many times, he became quite frightened, but, call as he would, neither man nor maid appeared. Who acts: prince, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 129

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After repeating this many times, he became quite frightened, but, call as he would, neither man nor maid appeared.

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**Who acts:** prince, man · **What happens:** repeat, become, frighten, call, appear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince, man), 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:pg641:10:129
# text = After repeating this many times, he became quite frightened, but, call as he would, neither man nor maid appeared.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc:preconj	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **become** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **appear** | past | man nor maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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