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title: A state ceremonial in a city some distance off caused the prince to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A state ceremonial in a city some distance off caused the prince to ride away at daybreak, and he left without seeing his wife again. Who acts: state ceremonial, prince. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 23

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A state ceremonial in a city some distance off caused the prince to ride away at daybreak, and he left without seeing his wife again.

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**Who acts:** state ceremonial, prince · **What happens:** cause, ride away, leave, see · **To what, where:** prince, daybreak, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (state ceremonial, 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:pg3027:13:23
# text = A state ceremonial in a city some distance off caused the prince to ride away at daybreak, and he left without seeing his wife again.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ceremonial	ceremonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | a state ceremonial in a city | the prince |  |  |  | off *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prince=Patient |
| 2 | **ride away** | to-infinitive | a state ceremonial in a city *not said here* |  |  | daybreak |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | prince *not said here* | prince's wife |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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