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title: The Prince, who had made up his mind to be more than cautious this t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince, who had made up his mind to be more than cautious this time, went cheerfully to work. Who acts: Prince, horse. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 47

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The Prince, who had made up his mind to be more than cautious this time, went cheerfully to work.

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**Who acts:** Prince, horse · **What happens:** make up, be, go, work, mind · **To what, where:** mind

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horse), 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:pg7277:52:47
# text = The Prince, who had made up his mind to be more than cautious this time, went cheerfully to work.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · perfect | the Prince | horse's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | than cautious; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mind** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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