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title: It may be imagined that after listening to these words the Invisible… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be imagined that after listening to these words the Invisible Prince followed Prince Gnome like his shadow, and after walking some time they arrived at the Golden Fountain. Who acts: Gnome, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 81

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It may be imagined that after listening to these words the Invisible Prince followed Prince Gnome like his shadow, and after walking some time they arrived at the Golden Fountain.

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**Who acts:** Gnome, Prince · **What happens:** imagine, listen, follow, walk, arrive, shadow · **To what, where:** dread, Invisible Prince, Prince Gnome, time, Golden Fountain

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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 (Gnome, 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:pg640:17:81
# text = It may be imagined that after listening to these words the Invisible Prince followed Prince Gnome like his shadow, and after walking some time they arrived at the Golden Fountain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Gnome	Gnome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may · passive |  | dread |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund |  | the Invisible Prince |  |  |  | to this words | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past |  | Prince Gnome |  |  |  | like Prince's shadow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | Gnome | some time *not said here* |  | the Golden Fountain |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shadow** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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