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title: Three of these were empty except for statues and wonderful things, b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Three of these were empty except for statues and wonderful things, but in the fourth the Invisible Prince caught sight of Rosalie. Who acts: Three, fourth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 48

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Three of these were empty except for statues and wonderful things, but in the fourth the Invisible Prince caught sight of Rosalie.

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**Who acts:** Three, fourth · **What happens:** be, catch, sight · **To what, where:** sight, 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 (Three, fourth), 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:pg640:16:48
# text = Three of these were empty except for statues and wonderful things, but in the fourth the Invisible Prince caught sight of Rosalie.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	except	except	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Three of these |  |  |  |  | except statues and wonderful things; empty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the fourth | sight of Rosalie |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | Rosalie |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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