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title: On leaving the temple the Invisible Prince saw six paths lying befor… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On leaving the temple the Invisible Prince saw six paths lying before him, each of which led through the wood. Who acts: Invisible Prince, six paths, each. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 72

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On leaving the temple the Invisible Prince saw six paths lying before him, each of which led through the wood.

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**Who acts:** Invisible Prince, six paths, each · **What happens:** leave, see, lie, lead · **To what, where:** temple, six paths, wood

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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, six paths, each), 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:pg640:17:72
# text = On leaving the temple the Invisible Prince saw six paths lying before him, each of which led through the wood.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nmod	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | the Invisible Prince *not said here* | the temple |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Invisible Prince | six paths |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | six paths *not said here* |  |  |  | before Prince |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 4 | **lead** | past | each |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination |

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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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