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title: When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Le… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Learn and know, O youth! that Waq of Qaf is in the Caucasus and is a dependency of it. Who acts: saint, prince, Qaf. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 106

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When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Learn and know, O youth! that Waq of Qaf is in the Caucasus and is a dependency of it.

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**Who acts:** saint, prince, Qaf · **What happens:** see, not move, say, learn, know, be · **To what, where:** prince, Waq, dependency · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saint, prince, Qaf), 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:pg3282:2:106
# text = When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Learn and know, O youth! that Waq of Qaf is in the Caucasus and is a dependency of it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Waq	Waq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	Qaf	Qaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dependency	dependency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the saint |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **move** | past · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that Waq and a dependency |  |  |  | of youth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of youth=Topic |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Qaf |  |  |  |  | of the Caucasus | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a dependency |  |  |  | of saint | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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