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title: But imagine the distress of the Prince when, from the giddy height a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 82

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But imagine the distress of the Prince when, from the giddy height at which they were rushing through the air, he saw his beloved Princess in a castle built of polished steel, the walls of which reflected the sun’s rays so hotly that no one could approach it without being burnt to a cinder!

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**Who acts:** you, princes, Desert, walls, one, sun · **What happens:** imagine, rush, see, build, polish, reflect · **To what, where:** distress, giddy height, beloved Princess, castle, rays, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princes, Desert, walls), 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:pg503:6:82
# text = But imagine the distress of the Prince when, from the giddy height at which they were rushing through the air, he saw his beloved Princess in a castle built of polished steel, the walls of which reflected the sun’s rays so hotly that no one could approach it without being burnt to a cinder!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	giddy	giddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	hotly	hotly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the distress of the Prince |  | the giddy height |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot distress=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past · progressive | princes *= prince* |  |  | the giddy height |  | through the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | past | Desert | Desert's beloved Princess |  | a castle and the walls |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a castle and the walls *not said here* |  |  |  | of polished steel | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **reflect** | past | the walls | the sun's rays |  |  |  | hotly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **approach** | could | no one | distress |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **burnt** | gerund · passive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a cinder | tree rules |
| 9 | **distress** |  |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  | nom distress «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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