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title: But there was no sign of the prince upon the roof; only, far away in… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But there was no sign of the prince upon the roof; only, far away in the sky, the Simurgh was seen carrying him off. Who acts: sign, Simurgh. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 133

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But there was no sign of the prince upon the roof; only, far away in the sky, the Simurgh was seen carrying him off.

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**Who acts:** sign, Simurgh · **What happens:** be, see, carry off, sign · **To what, where:** Simurgh, sky, sign, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, Simurgh), 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:pg3282:5:133
# text = But there was no sign of the prince upon the roof; only, far away in the sky, the Simurgh was seen carrying him off.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no sign of the prince upon the roof |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | the Simurgh |  | the sky |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry off** | gerund | the Simurgh *not said here* | sign |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | the prince upon the roof |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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