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title: And so it was done; and as the fairy had prophesied, all the young p… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it was done; and as the fairy had prophesied, all the young princes fell in love with the picture; but the last one to whom it was shown could think of nothing else, and refused to let it be removed from his chamber, where he spent whole days gazing at it. Who acts: young princes, last one, T
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 81

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And so it was done; and as the fairy had prophesied, all the young princes fell in love with the picture; but the last one to whom it was shown could think of nothing else, and refused to let it be removed from his chamber, where he spent whole days gazing at it.

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**Who acts:** young princes, last one, Tulip · **What happens:** do, prophesy, fall, show, think, refuse · **To what, where:** beauty, fairy, love, chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young princes, last one, Tulip), 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:pg3027:22:81
# text = And so it was done; and as the fairy had prophesied, all the young princes fell in love with the picture; but the last one to whom it was shown could think of nothing else, and refused to let it be removed from his chamber, where he spent whole days gazing at it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obl	_	_
38	else	else	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	xcomp	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	53	advmod	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	advcl	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | beauty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **prophesy** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | all young princes |  |  | love |  | with the picture | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 4 | **show** | past · passive | the last one *not said here* | beauty |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient whom=Topic |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | could | the last one |  |  |  |  | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **refuse** | past | the last one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | the last one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **remove** | infinitive · passive |  | beauty |  | Tulip's chamber |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from chamber=Source |
| 9 | **spend** | past | Tulip |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **gaze** | gerund | Tulip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |

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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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