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title: After supper that night, the old man said to the prince, ‘For two da… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After supper that night, the old man said to the prince, ‘For two days you may rest from the fatigues of the journey, and look about the house. Who acts: old man, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 94

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After supper that night, the old man said to the prince, ‘For two days you may rest from the fatigues of the journey, and look about the house.

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**Who acts:** old man, you · **What happens:** say, rest, look, fatigue · **To what, where:** prince, fatigues, journey · **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 (old man, you), 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:pg641:9:94
# text = After supper that night, the old man said to the prince, ‘For two days you may rest from the fatigues of the journey, and look about the house.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fatigues	fatigue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  | the prince |  | after supper  that night |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient |
| 2 | **rest** | may | you |  |  | the fatigues of the journey | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about house=Theme |
| 4 | **fatigue** |  |  | the journey |  |  |  |  | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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