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title: The prince stood speechless at this command, but the king did not co… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince stood speechless at this command, but the king did not condescend to give any further explanation, and when he was dismissed the young man flew to the room which had been set aside for him, and pulling out his feather, he cried: ‘Dove, dove! be quick and come.’ Who acts: prince, king, you
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 23

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The prince stood speechless at this command, but the king did not condescend to give any further explanation, and when he was dismissed the young man flew to the room which had been set aside for him, and pulling out his feather, he cried: ‘Dove, dove! be quick and come.’

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**Who acts:** prince, king, young man, Dove · **What happens:** stand, not condescend, give, dismiss, fly, set · **To what, where:** command, further explanation, prince, room, feather

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king, young man, Dove), 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:pg641:42:23
# text = The prince stood speechless at this command, but the king did not condescend to give any further explanation, and when he was dismissed the young man flew to the room which had been set aside for him, and pulling out his feather, he cried: ‘Dove, dove! be quick and come.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	condescend	condescend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
50	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	Dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the prince |  |  | this command |  | speechless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at command=Location |
| 2 | **not** **condescend** | past · do-support | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | any further explanation |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme |
| 4 | **dismiss** | past · passive |  | prince |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | to the room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result |
| 6 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | the room |  |  |  | for man; aside *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for he=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **pull out** | gerund | prince *not said here* | man's feather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | infinitive | Dove |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** | present | Dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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