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title: She bounded off at the sight of a man, but not before the prince, wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She bounded off at the sight of a man, but not before the prince, who had fastened on his bow without thinking, had let fly several arrows, which the fairy Tulip took care should do her no harm. Who acts: fancy, prince, several arrows, Tulip. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Ope
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 25

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She bounded off at the sight of a man, but not before the prince, who had fastened on his bow without thinking, had let fly several arrows, which the fairy Tulip took care should do her no harm.

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**Who acts:** fancy, prince, several arrows, Tulip · **What happens:** bound off, fasten, think, let, fly, fairy · **To what, where:** sight, care, harm, man

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fancy, prince, several arrows, 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:pg3027:24:25
# text = She bounded off at the sight of a man, but not before the prince, who had fastened on his bow without thinking, had let fly several arrows, which the fairy Tulip took care should do her no harm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	Tulip	Tulip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound off** | past | fancy |  |  | the sight of a man |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fasten** | past · perfect | the prince |  |  |  |  | on Becasigue's bow | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on bow=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | past · perfect | fancy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | infinitive | fancy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fairy** |  | several arrows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | past | Tulip | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | should | several arrows | fancy's harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 9 | **sight** |  |  | a man |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **harm** |  | fancy |  |  |  |  |  | nom harm «state 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 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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