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title: The Prince without paying any further heed to him or to his whistlin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince without paying any further heed to him or to his whistling returned to the pretty gazelle, saying: Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 33

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The Prince without paying any further heed to him or to his whistling returned to the pretty gazelle, saying:

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** pay, return, say, whistle · **To what, where:** further heed, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg7277:37:33
# text = The Prince without paying any further heed to him or to his whistling returned to the pretty gazelle, saying:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	whistling	whistling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | any further heed | Prince |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 2 | **return** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | to the pretty gazelle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to gazelle=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whistle** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistling «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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