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title: So, soon afterwards, the youth, who had not gone far from the palace… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, soon afterwards, the youth, who had not gone far from the palace, was caught and ushered into the king's presence. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 7

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So, soon afterwards, the youth, who had not gone far from the palace, was caught and ushered into the king's presence.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** not go, catch, usher · **To what, where:** palace, youth, presence

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg3027:38:7
# text = So, soon afterwards, the youth, who had not gone far from the palace, was caught and ushered into the king's presence.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ushered	usher	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the youth |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **usher** | participle |  |  |  | the king's presence |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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