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title: He thought only of the Princess and where he should find her, but in… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought only of the Princess and where he should find her, but in vain he opened every door and searched in every corner; he neither saw Rosalie nor anyone else. Who acts: gate. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 46

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He thought only of the Princess and where he should find her, but in vain he opened every door and searched in every corner; he neither saw Rosalie nor anyone else.

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**Who acts:** gate · **What happens:** think, find, open, search, see · **To what, where:** Princess, door, vain, corner, Rosalie

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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:pg640:16:46
# text = He thought only of the Princess and where he should find her, but in vain he opened every door and searched in every corner; he neither saw Rosalie nor anyone else.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	vain	vain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	conj	_	_
33	else	else	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | gate |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | should | gate | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **open** | past | gate | every door |  | vain |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in vain=Location |
| 4 | **search** | participle | gate *not said here* |  |  | every corner |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 5 | **see** | past | gate | Rosalie |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rosalie=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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