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title: The prince left the room, rejoicing in his heart, and saying to hims… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince left the room, rejoicing in his heart, and saying to himself, ‘Well, I shall soon get through that! Who acts: prince, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 117

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The prince left the room, rejoicing in his heart, and saying to himself, ‘Well, I shall soon get through that!

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**Who acts:** prince, I · **What happens:** leave, rejoice, say, get · **To what, where:** room, heart, prince, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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:pg641:9:117
# text = The prince left the room, rejoicing in his heart, and saying to himself, ‘Well, I shall soon get through that!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the prince | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  | prince's heart |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  | prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **get** | shall | I |  |  | that |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through that=Destination |

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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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