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title: ‘Prince, I will help you,’ said the toad again, and crawled back int… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Prince, I will help you,’ said the toad again, and crawled back into her swamp as fast as her short little legs would carry her. Who acts: Prince, short little legs. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 2

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‘Prince, I will help you,’ said the toad again, and crawled back into her swamp as fast as her short little legs would carry her.

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**Who acts:** Prince, short little legs · **What happens:** help, say, crawl back, carry · **To what, where:** you, toad, swamp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, short little legs), 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:pg7277:30:2
# text = ‘Prince, I will help you,’ said the toad again, and crawled back into her swamp as fast as her short little legs would carry her.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | future | Prince |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the toad |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl back** | past |  |  |  | toad's swamp |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swamp=Destination |
| 4 | **carry** | would | toad's short little legs | toad |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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