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title: The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when she heard this new command she said: ‘Now listen. Who acts: prince, daughter. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 32

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The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when she heard this new command she said: ‘Now listen.

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**Who acts:** prince, daughter · **What happens:** hasten back, summon, hear, say, listen · **To what, where:** prince, room, dove, new command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, daughter), 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:pg641:42:32
# text = The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when she heard this new command she said: ‘Now listen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten back** | participle |  | the prince *not said here* |  | prince's room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination |
| 2 | **summon** | past | the prince | the dove |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | past | daughter | this new command |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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