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title: This was granted, and the Invisible Prince speedily took the opportu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This was granted, and the Invisible Prince speedily took the opportunity of handing her the stone, which she at once slipped into her mouth. Who acts: Invisible Prince, opportunity, stone. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 45

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This was granted, and the Invisible Prince speedily took the opportunity of handing her the stone, which she at once slipped into her mouth.

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**Who acts:** Invisible Prince, opportunity, stone · **What happens:** grant, take, hand, slip · **To what, where:** This, opportunity, stone, Rosalie, mouth

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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 (Invisible Prince, opportunity, stone), 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:pg640:17:45
# text = This was granted, and the Invisible Prince speedily took the opportunity of handing her the stone, which she at once slipped into her mouth.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	_
23	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Invisible Prince | the opportunity |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 3 | **hand** | gerund | the opportunity *not said here* | the stone | Rosalie |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination stone=Theme |
| 4 | **slip** | past | the stone |  |  | Rosalie's mouth |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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