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title: The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told, whereupon… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told, whereupon the wolf changed himself into a ship full of most exquisite silks, of every shade and colour imaginable. Who acts: Prince, wolf. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 63

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The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told, whereupon the wolf changed himself into a ship full of most exquisite silks, of every shade and colour imaginable.

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**Who acts:** Prince, wolf · **What happens:** promise, do, tell, change · **To what, where:** all, mortal, ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, wolf), 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:pg7277:52:63
# text = The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told, whereupon the wolf changed himself into a ship full of most exquisite silks, of every shade and colour imaginable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
24	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | mortal |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **change** | past | the wolf | mortal |  |  |  | into a ship *result*; whereupon *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into ship=Result |

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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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