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title: But when, after all the grand titles of the other Princes, he simply… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when, after all the grand titles of the other Princes, he simply wrote ‘Mannikin,’ the ambassadors broke into shouts of laughter. Who acts: Prince, grand titles. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 48

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But when, after all the grand titles of the other Princes, he simply wrote ‘Mannikin,’ the ambassadors broke into shouts of laughter.

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**Who acts:** Prince, grand titles · **What happens:** write, break, shout, title · **To what, where:** other Princes

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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 (Prince, grand titles), 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:pg7277:14:48
# text = But when, after all the grand titles of the other Princes, he simply wrote ‘Mannikin,’ the ambassadors broke into shouts of laughter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
23	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Prince | the other Princes  the ambassadors *not said here* |  |  |  | ‘ Mannikin; simply *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | all grand titles of the other Princes  the ambassadors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | all grand titles of the other Princes  the ambassadors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of laughter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **title** |  |  | the other Princes  the ambassadors |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication 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 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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