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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 90

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She directed him to do just as he had done before, with only this difference, that instead of going to the stable which had been the ruin of his hopes, he was to enter right into the castle itself, and to glide as fast as he could down the passages till he came to a room filled with perfume, where he would find a beautiful maiden asleep on a bed.

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**Who acts:** heart, Saphir, that, stable · **What happens:** direct, do, go, be, glide, down · **To what, where:** Saphir, stable, ruin, passages, room, beautiful maiden asleep bed

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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 (heart, Saphir, that, stable), 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:pg640:11:90
# text = She directed him to do just as he had done before, with only this difference, that instead of going to the stable which had been the ruin of his hopes, he was to enter right into the castle itself, and to glide as fast as he could down the passages till he came to a room filled with perfume, where he would find a beautiful maiden asleep on a bed.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	directed	direct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
38	right	right	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	41	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	glide	glide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
47	as	as	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	down	down	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	acl	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
65	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	68	advmod	_	_
66	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
67	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
68	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	acl:relcl	_	_
69	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
70	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
71	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
72	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
73	on	on	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **direct** | past | heart | Saphir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | Saphir |  |  |  |  | with this difference; before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | that |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past · perfect | the stable | the ruin |  |  |  | of Saphir's hopes | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Saphir |  |  |  |  | enter *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **glide** | to-infinitive | Saphir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **down** | could | Saphir | the passages |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient |
| 9 | **come** | past | Saphir |  |  | a room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **fill** | participle |  | a room *not said here* |  |  |  | with perfume | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with perfume=Instrument |
| 11 | **find** | would | Saphir | a beautiful maiden asleep bed |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic |
| 12 | **hope** |  | Saphir |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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