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title: One day, when the prince was old enough to run quite fast by himself… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when the prince was old enough to run quite fast by himself, he looked from the terrace across the moat, and saw a little soft fluffy ball of a dog jumping and playing on the other side. Who acts: prince, baby, dog. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2

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One day, when the prince was old enough to run quite fast by himself, he looked from the terrace across the moat, and saw a little soft fluffy ball of a dog jumping and playing on the other side.

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**Who acts:** prince, baby, dog · **What happens:** be, run, look, see, jump, play · **To what, where:** little soft fluffy ball, other side

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, baby, dog), 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:pg3282:25:2
# text = One day, when the prince was old enough to run quite fast by himself, he looked from the terrace across the moat, and saw a little soft fluffy ball of a dog jumping and playing on the other side.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by baby; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |
| 3 | **look** | past | baby |  |  |  | day | across the moat; from the terrace | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from terrace=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | baby *not said here* | a little soft fluffy ball of a dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |
| 5 | **jump** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  | the other side |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 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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