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title: As might have been expected, the young Prince lost his heart complet… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As might have been expected, the young Prince lost his heart completely to the beautiful image, and it was impossible to get him out of the room, so busy was he in watching the lovely unknown. Who acts: young Prince, movement. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 22

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As might have been expected, the young Prince lost his heart completely to the beautiful image, and it was impossible to get him out of the room, so busy was he in watching the lovely unknown.

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**Who acts:** young Prince, movement · **What happens:** expect, lose, be, get, watch · **To what, where:** heart, movement, room, lovely unknown

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (young Prince, movement), 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:pg640:11:22
# text = As might have been expected, the young Prince lost his heart completely to the beautiful image, and it was impossible to get him out of the room, so busy was he in watching the lovely unknown.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | might · perfect · passive | the young Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **lose** | past | the young Prince | movement's heart |  |  |  | to the beautiful image; completely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | movement |  | the room |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **watch** | past · progressive | movement | the lovely unknown |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unknown=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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