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title: The Prince sent Mousta back to her, and he was welcomed with joy, fo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince sent Mousta back to her, and he was welcomed with joy, for was he not her lover’s present? Who acts: Prince, Mousta. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 46

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The Prince sent Mousta back to her, and he was welcomed with joy, for was he not her lover’s present?

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**Who acts:** Prince, Mousta · **What happens:** send back, welcome, not be · **To what, where:** Mousta, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Mousta), 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:pg7277:17:46
# text = The Prince sent Mousta back to her, and he was welcomed with joy, for was he not her lover’s present?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send back** | past | the Prince | Mousta | Queen |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mousta=Theme to she=Destination |
| 2 | **welcome** | past · passive |  | Mousta |  |  |  | with joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Mousta |  |  |  |  | for Queen's lover's present | tree rules |

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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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