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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 23

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This idea made him horribly uneasy, and he resolved to remove the cause of his fears by sending the Prince on his travels escorted by a magnificent retinue.

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**Who acts:** idea, King · **What happens:** make, resolve, remove, send, travel, escort · **To what, where:** King, cause, Prince, fears

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, King), 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:pg640:20:23
# text = This idea made him horribly uneasy, and he resolved to remove the cause of his fears by sending the Prince on his travels escorted by a magnificent retinue.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	escorted	escort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | this idea | King |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the cause of King's fears |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | gerund | King *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 5 | **travel** | present | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **escort** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a magnificent retinue | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination |
| 7 | **cause** |  |  | King's fears |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **fear** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling 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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