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title: The prince at once fell in love with her, and they talked together f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince at once fell in love with her, and they talked together for some time, till the maiden said her sisters had finished plucking the apples, and now they must all go home again. Who acts: prince, boughs, maiden. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 13

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The prince at once fell in love with her, and they talked together for some time, till the maiden said her sisters had finished plucking the apples, and now they must all go home again.

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**Who acts:** prince, boughs, maiden · **What happens:** fall, talk, say, finish, pluck, go · **To what, where:** love, sisters, apples · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, boughs, maiden), 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:pg641:7:13
# text = The prince at once fell in love with her, and they talked together for some time, till the maiden said her sisters had finished plucking the apples, and now they must all go home again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
27	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
37	home	home	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the prince |  |  | love |  | with eight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | past | boughs *= bough* |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | maiden's sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pluck** | gerund |  | the apples |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | must | boughs *= bough* |  |  |  | now; again | all, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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