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title: The old Abbess then gave the Prince her blessing, and he set out upo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Abbess then gave the Prince her blessing, and he set out upon his enterprise, arrived at the Serpent’s castle by following the secret passage which she had shown him, and by carefully attending to all her directions he happily succeeded in killing the monster. Who acts: old Abbess, monster, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 19

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The old Abbess then gave the Prince her blessing, and he set out upon his enterprise, arrived at the Serpent’s castle by following the secret passage which she had shown him, and by carefully attending to all her directions he happily succeeded in killing the monster.

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**Who acts:** old Abbess, monster, Abbess · **What happens:** give, set out, arrive, follow, show, attend · **To what, where:** blessing, Prince, castle, secret passage, directions, monster

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Abbess, monster, Abbess), 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:pg640:13:19
# text = The old Abbess then gave the Prince her blessing, and he set out upon his enterprise, arrived at the Serpent’s castle by following the secret passage which she had shown him, and by carefully attending to all her directions he happily succeeded in killing the monster.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the old Abbess | Abbess's blessing | the Prince |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient blessing=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | monster |  |  |  |  | upon monster's enterprise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the old Abbess *not said here* |  |  | the Serpent's castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | the old Abbess *not said here* | the secret passage |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | past · perfect · passive |  | the secret passage |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 6 | **attend** | gerund | the old Abbess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Abbess's directions; carefully *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to direction=Theme |
| 7 | **succeed** | past | monster | Abbess's directions *not said here* |  |  |  | happily *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **kill** | gerund | monster *not said here* | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Theme |
| 9 | **bless** |  | Abbess |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act 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 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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