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title: Now as magicians lose all their power as soon as they are in prison,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now as magicians lose all their power as soon as they are in prison, the King felt himself much embarrassed at being thus at the mercy of those he had so greatly offended. Who acts: magicians, bride, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide W
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 65

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Now as magicians lose all their power as soon as they are in prison, the King felt himself much embarrassed at being thus at the mercy of those he had so greatly offended.

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**Who acts:** magicians, bride, King · **What happens:** lose, be, feel, have · **To what, where:** power, King, mercy

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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 (magicians, bride, 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:pg640:20:65
# text = Now as magicians lose all their power as soon as they are in prison, the King felt himself much embarrassed at being thus at the mercy of those he had so greatly offended.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
24	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | magicians | bride's power |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | bride |  |  |  |  | as prison | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the King | King |  |  | now | embarrassed *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the mercy |  | of those; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | King |  |  |  |  | offended *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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