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title: As soon as the prince was awake he hastened to the place where, only… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the prince was awake he hastened to the place where, only the day before, he had found the white doe feeding; but of course she had taken care to go in the opposite direction. Who acts: prince, doe, longing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 34

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As soon as the prince was awake he hastened to the place where, only the day before, he had found the white doe feeding; but of course she had taken care to go in the opposite direction.

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**Who acts:** prince, doe, longing · **What happens:** be, hasten, find, take, go · **To what, where:** place, white doe feeding, care, opposite direction

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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 (prince, doe, longing), 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:pg3027:24:34
# text = As soon as the prince was awake he hastened to the place where, only the day before, he had found the white doe feeding; but of course she had taken care to go in the opposite direction.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	33	advmod	_	_
30	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	fixed	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
34	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | doe |  |  | the place and the day |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | doe | the white doe feeding |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeding=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | longing | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | longing *not said here* |  |  | the opposite direction |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |

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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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