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title: The prince, whom the strict etiquette of the court had prevented fro… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince, whom the strict etiquette of the court had prevented from being present in the underground hall, was burning with impatience in his own apartments. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 44

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The prince, whom the strict etiquette of the court had prevented from being present in the underground hall, was burning with impatience in his own apartments.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** prevent, be, burn · **To what, where:** strict etiquette, underground hall

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. 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:pg3027:23:44
# text = The prince, whom the strict etiquette of the court had prevented from being present in the underground hall, was burning with impatience in his own apartments.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | past · perfect · passive |  | the strict etiquette of the court |  |  |  | the prince *obl* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the underground hall |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  |  | with impatience in prince's own apartments | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with impatience=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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