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title: He ordered all the passages to be watched, but it was too late, for… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered all the passages to be watched, but it was too late, for the Prince had already glided between two rocks. Who acts: astonishment, disappearance, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 34

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He ordered all the passages to be watched, but it was too late, for the Prince had already glided between two rocks.

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**Who acts:** astonishment, disappearance, Prince · **What happens:** order, watch, be, glide · **To what, where:** passages, two rocks

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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 (astonishment, disappearance, Prince), 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:pg640:17:34
# text = He ordered all the passages to be watched, but it was too late, for the Prince had already glided between two rocks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | astonishment | all passages |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent passage=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |
| 3 | **is** | past | disappearance |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **glide** | past · perfect | the Prince |  |  | two rocks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between rock=Trajectory |

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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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