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title: But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn’t the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn’t the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees. Who acts: counsel, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 77

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But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn’t the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees.

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**Who acts:** counsel, Prince · **What happens:** give, not be, approach · **To what, where:** Prince, throne, knees

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, 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:pg7277:27:77
# text = But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn’t the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mindful	mindful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | the counsel *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **approach** | past | the Prince *not said here* | the throne |  | Prince's knees | still |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |

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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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