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title: Having told the Prince all this, the Fairy went out in hopes of seei… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having told the Prince all this, the Fairy went out in hopes of seeing the parrot, and soon returned with the bird in her hand. Who acts: Fairy, hopes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 35

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Having told the Prince all this, the Fairy went out in hopes of seeing the parrot, and soon returned with the bird in her hand.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, hopes · **What happens:** have, tell, go out, see, return · **To what, where:** this, Prince, hopes, parrot, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fairy, hopes), 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:pg640:20:35
# text = Having told the Prince all this, the Fairy went out in hopes of seeing the parrot, and soon returned with the bird in her hand.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | the Fairy *not said here* | this | the Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient this=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the Fairy |  |  | hopes |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | the parrot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus |
| 5 | **return** | participle | the Fairy *not said here* |  |  | Fairy's hand |  | with the bird; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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