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title: After searching as usual for nearly a whole day Prince Saphir began… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After searching as usual for nearly a whole day Prince Saphir began to feel overcome with thirst. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 62

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After searching as usual for nearly a whole day Prince Saphir began to feel overcome with thirst.

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**What happens:** search, begin, feel

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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: 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:pg640:11:62
# text = After searching as usual for nearly a whole day Prince Saphir began to feel overcome with thirst.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	overcome	overcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | as usual | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | overcome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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