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title: Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed back to the gazelle, crying: 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 45

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Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed back to the gazelle, crying:

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** wait, sheathe, rush back, cry · **To what, where:** sword

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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:pg7277:37:45
# text = Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed back to the gazelle, crying:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sheathe	sheathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | the Prince |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sheathe** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | Prince's sword |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **rush back** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the gazelle *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to gazelle=Result |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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