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title: The Prince went on his way, thinking about this strange adventure, w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince went on his way, thinking about this strange adventure, when suddenly at the turn of the walk he perceived a tall man whose face was the picture of misery, holding in his hands a silken cord of the exact colour of those round the necks of the dead men. Who acts: Prince, turn, face. A sent
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 3

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The Prince went on his way, thinking about this strange adventure, when suddenly at the turn of the walk he perceived a tall man whose face was the picture of misery, holding in his hands a silken cord of the exact colour of those round the necks of the dead men.

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**Who acts:** Prince, turn, face · **What happens:** go, think, perceive, be, hold · **To what, where:** way, tall man, picture, silken cord, hands

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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, turn, face), 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:pg640:17:3
# text = The Prince went on his way, thinking about this strange adventure, when suddenly at the turn of the walk he perceived a tall man whose face was the picture of misery, holding in his hands a silken cord of the exact colour of those round the necks of the dead men.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	45	nmod	_	_
48	round	round	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Prince |  |  | Prince's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about this strange adventure | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about adventure=Topic |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | the turn of the walk | a tall man |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the picture's face | the picture |  |  |  | of misery | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | the turn of the walk *not said here* | a silken cord of the exact colour of those |  | Prince's hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cord=Theme in hand=Location |

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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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