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title: As they approached the town he saw that some great rejoicing was bei… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 101

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As they approached the town he saw that some great rejoicing was being held, and when the hunters asked what had happened they were told that the Prince, whose only pleasure it was to torment his people, had been found in his room, killed by a thunder-bolt (for that was what was supposed to have become of him).

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**Who acts:** faults, prince, hunters, rejoicing · **What happens:** approach, see, hold, ask, happen, tell · **To what, where:** town, great rejoicing, faults, room, thunder bolt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faults, prince, hunters, rejoicing), 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:pg503:39:101
# text = As they approached the town he saw that some great rejoicing was being held, and when the hunters asked what had happened they were told that the Prince, whose only pleasure it was to torment his people, had been found in his room, killed by a thunder-bolt (for that was what was supposed to have become of him).
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	torment	torment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	obl	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl:relcl	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
62	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	aux	_	_
63	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	60	xcomp	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | faults *= fault* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hold** | past · passive |  | some great rejoicing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the hunters |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | faults *= fault* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **pleasure** | infinitive | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | rejoicing |  |  |  |  | torment *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | prince *not said here* |  |  | prince's room |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 10 | **kill** | participle | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a thunder bolt | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | a thunder bolt |  |  |  | for a thunder bolt | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 12 | **become** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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