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title: Prince Mannikin was seized with a violent desire to inscribe his nam… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Mannikin was seized with a violent desire to inscribe his name among the others, but the remembrance of his dependent position and his lack of wealth held him back. Who acts: remembrance, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 42

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Prince Mannikin was seized with a violent desire to inscribe his name among the others, but the remembrance of his dependent position and his lack of wealth held him back.

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**Who acts:** remembrance, Prince · **What happens:** seize, inscribe, hold back, name, remember, lack · **To what, where:** Mannikin, name, others, Prince, dependent position, wealth

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (remembrance, Prince), 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:pg7277:14:42
# text = Prince Mannikin was seized with a violent desire to inscribe his name among the others, but the remembrance of his dependent position and his lack of wealth held him back.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	inscribe	inscribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · passive |  | Mannikin  Prince |  |  |  | with a violent desire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **inscribe** | to-infinitive |  | Prince's name |  | the others |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme among other=Destination |
| 3 | **hold back** | past | the remembrance of Prince's dependent position and Prince's lack of wealth | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **remember** |  |  | Prince's dependent position and Prince's lack of wealth |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **lack** |  | Prince | wealth |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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