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title: The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some way of escape. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 37

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The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some way of escape.

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**What happens:** bound, seek · **To what, where:** prince deer, garden, way

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3282:3:37
# text = The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some way of escape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
13	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | participle · passive |  | the prince deer |  | the garden | now |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | past |  | some way of escape |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme at once=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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