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title: He had, however, entirely forgotten the road by which he had come, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had, however, entirely forgotten the road by which he had come, and lost himself for so long in the forest, that when at last he reached home the Fairy had already left, and, in spite of all his grief, there was nothing for it but to wait till the Fairy’s next visit, and allow Rosalie to suffer t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 70

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He had, however, entirely forgotten the road by which he had come, and lost himself for so long in the forest, that when at last he reached home the Fairy had already left, and, in spite of all his grief, there was nothing for it but to wait till the Fairy’s next visit, and allow Rosalie to suffer three months longer.

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**Who acts:** palace, spite, Fairy · **What happens:** have, forget, come, lose, reach, leave · **To what, where:** road, palace, forest, last, Fairy, 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 (palace, spite, Fairy), 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:pg640:16:70
# text = He had, however, entirely forgotten the road by which he had come, and lost himself for so long in the forest, that when at last he reached home the Fairy had already left, and, in spite of all his grief, there was nothing for it but to wait till the Fairy’s next visit, and allow Rosalie to suffer three months longer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	already	already	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	advcl	_	_
56	till	till	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	’s	's	PART	POS	_	58	case	_	_
60	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
65	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	iobj	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
68	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	69	nummod	_	_
69	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	obl:unmarked	_	_
70	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	67	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | palace |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | participle | palace *not said here* | the road |  |  |  | entirely, however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | palace |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location |
| 4 | **lose** | past | palace *not said here* | palace |  | the forest |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality |
| 5 | **reach** | past | palace |  |  | last |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | spite of palace's grief |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | till the Fairy's next visit |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **allow** | infinitive | spite of palace's grief *not said here* |  | Rosalie |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer rosalie=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **suffer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | spite of palace's grief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **spite** |  |  | palace's grief |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **visit** |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «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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