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title: As his hands were fastened, it was impossible for the Prince of the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As his hands were fastened, it was impossible for the Prince of the Golden Isle to make use of his magic stone, and he passed his nights and days dreaming of Rosalie. Who acts: Prince, days. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 29

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As his hands were fastened, it was impossible for the Prince of the Golden Isle to make use of his magic stone, and he passed his nights and days dreaming of Rosalie.

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**Who acts:** Prince, days · **What happens:** fasten, be, make, pass, dream, use · **To what, where:** hands, use, magic stone

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Prince, days), 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:pg640:17:29
# text = As his hands were fastened, it was impossible for the Prince of the Golden Isle to make use of his magic stone, and he passed his nights and days dreaming of Rosalie.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
19	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | Prince's hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the Prince of the Golden Isle; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | use of Prince's magic stone |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 4 | **pass** | past | Prince |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** | gerund | days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Rosalie | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **use** |  |  | Prince's magic stone |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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