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title: Then the prince ordered the evil-doer to be seized and bound and thr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the prince ordered the evil-doer to be seized and bound and thrown into prison, where he was kept for many months. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 53

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Then the prince ordered the evil-doer to be seized and bound and thrown into prison, where he was kept for many months.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** order, seize, bind, throw, keep · **To what, where:** evil doer, prison, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg641:18:53
# text = Then the prince ordered the evil-doer to be seized and bound and thrown into prison, where he was kept for many months.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	doer	doer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the prince | the evil doer |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doer=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive · passive | the prince *not said here* | the evil doer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **bind** | participle | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** | participle | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into prison *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result |
| 5 | **keep** | past · passive |  | prince |  |  | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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