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title: The Prince was immediately seized with the most ardent desire to go… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince was immediately seized with the most ardent desire to go on board the ship, and shouted loudly to attract the notice of her crew, but no one answered. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 14

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The Prince was immediately seized with the most ardent desire to go on board the ship, and shouted loudly to attract the notice of her crew, but no one answered.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** seize, go, shout, attract, answer, notice · **To what, where:** Prince, ship, notice, crew

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (one), 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:pg7277:37:14
# text = The Prince was immediately seized with the most ardent desire to go on board the ship, and shouted loudly to attract the notice of her crew, but no one answered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	ardent	ardent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	board	board	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | with the ardent desire; immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the ship |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attract** | to-infinitive |  | the notice of sun's crew |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **notice** |  |  | sun's crew |  |  |  |  | nom notice «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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