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title: The prince answered nothing, but thought, ‘Well, most peasants of ni… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince answered nothing, but thought, ‘Well, most peasants of nineteen have got a whole herd to look after, so surely I can manage one.’ Who acts: prince, most peasants, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 76

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The prince answered nothing, but thought, ‘Well, most peasants of nineteen have got a whole herd to look after, so surely I can manage one.’

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**Who acts:** prince, most peasants, I · **What happens:** answer, think, get, look, manage · **To what, where:** nothing, whole herd, one · **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, most peasants, I), 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:pg641:10:76
# text = The prince answered nothing, but thought, ‘Well, most peasants of nineteen have got a whole herd to look after, so surely I can manage one.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	after	after	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present · perfect | most peasants of nineteen | a whole herd |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | most peasants of nineteen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **manage** | can | I | one |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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