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title: This Prince, who was called Fadasse, accepted the challenge very sco… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This Prince, who was called Fadasse, accepted the challenge very scornfully, mocking at Mannikin, whom he felt sure had no chance against himself; but the meeting was arranged for the next day. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its depe
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 22

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This Prince, who was called Fadasse, accepted the challenge very scornfully, mocking at Mannikin, whom he felt sure had no chance against himself; but the meeting was arranged for the next day.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** call, accept, mock, feel, have, arrange · **To what, where:** Prince, challenge, Mannikin, chance, meeting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:1248`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:16:22
# text = This Prince, who was called Fadasse, accepted the challenge very scornfully, mocking at Mannikin, whom he felt sure had no chance against himself; but the meeting was arranged for the next day.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Fadasse	Fadasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | this Prince |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **accept** | past | this Prince | the challenge |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** | gerund | this Prince *not said here* |  |  | Mannikin |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Prince | Mannikin *not said here* |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | no chance |  |  |  | against Mannikin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 6 | **arrange** | past · passive |  | the meeting |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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