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title: The Prince, who was no longer hungry, grew so impatient at the Fairy… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince, who was no longer hungry, grew so impatient at the Fairy’s continual remarks about his nose that at last he threw himself upon his horse and rode hastily away. Who acts: Prince, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 95

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The Prince, who was no longer hungry, grew so impatient at the Fairy’s continual remarks about his nose that at last he threw himself upon his horse and rode hastily away.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Fairy · **What happens:** be, grow, throw, ride, remark · **To what, where:** nose, last

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy), 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:pg503:3:95
# text = The Prince, who was no longer hungry, grew so impatient at the Fairy’s continual remarks about his nose that at last he threw himself upon his horse and rode hastily away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 |  |  |  |  | hungry, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Prince | Prince's nose |  | last |  | upon Prince's horse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination himself=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remark** |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | about Prince's nose | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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