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title: A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfello… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace. Who acts: young prince, gardener. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 126

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A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace.

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**Who acts:** young prince, gardener · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** son, grounds

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, gardener), 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:pg3282:22:126
# text = A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a young prince | the son |  |  |  | of the gardener | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | the gardener |  |  | the grounds of the palace |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grounds=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 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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