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title: The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took possession of the room with the golden bed. Who acts: good natured Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 8

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The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took possession of the room with the golden bed.

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**Who acts:** good natured Princess · **What happens:** leave, hurry, ruin, take, possess · **To what, where:** home, ruined castle, possession, room

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good natured Princess), 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:pg640:18:8
# text = The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took possession of the room with the golden bed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the good natured Princess | Princess's home and Princess's family |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **hurry** | participle | the good natured Princess *not said here* |  |  | the ruined castle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 3 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the good natured Princess *not said here* | possession of the room |  |  |  | with the golden bed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | the room |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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