--- title: By and bye a baby was born to her, and soon after that the prince wa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By and bye a baby was born to her, and soon after that the prince was sent on a journey by his father to visit some of the distant towns of the kingdom, and to set right things that had gone wrong. Who acts: father, right things. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/) / 35 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35 By and bye a baby was born to her, and soon after that the prince was sent on a journey by his father to visit some of the distant towns of the kingdom, and to set right things that had gone wrong. **Who acts:** father, right things · **What happens:** bye, bear, send, visit, set, go · **To what, where:** baby, girl, prince, journey, some, right things This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, right things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:21:35 # text = By and bye a baby was born to her, and soon after that the prince was sent on a journey by his father to visit some of the distant towns of the kingdom, and to set right things that had gone wrong. 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 bye bye VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 visit visit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bye** | imperative | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | | a baby | girl | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **send** | past · passive | prince's father | the prince | | a journey | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | | some | | | | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Co-Agent | | 5 | **set** | to-infinitive | | right things | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result | | 6 | **go** | past · perfect | right things | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/36/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)