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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 64

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He fell down senseless, and the Princess’s father, deeply offended at the cruel revenge which had been attempted, ordered him to be removed and locked up in prison.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** fall down, offend, attempt, order, remove, lock up · **To what, where:** father, cruel revenge, King, prison

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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 (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:pg640:20:64
# text = He fell down senseless, and the Princess’s father, deeply offended at the cruel revenge which had been attempted, ordered him to be removed and locked up in prison.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	offended	offend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | King | the Princess's father |  |  |  | down, senseless *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offend** | participle |  | the Princess's father *not said here* |  | the cruel revenge |  | deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **attempt** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cruel revenge |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **order** | past |  |  | King |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **remove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **lock up** | participle |  |  |  | prison |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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