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title: In due time a second Prince was born, and the Queen was devoured wit… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In due time a second Prince was born, and the Queen was devoured with rage at the thought that Prince Alphege came between her son and the throne. Who acts: Alphege. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 72

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In due time a second Prince was born, and the Queen was devoured with rage at the thought that Prince Alphege came between her son and the throne.

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**Who acts:** Alphege · **What happens:** bear, devour, come · **To what, where:** second Prince, Queen, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alphege), 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:pg640:22:72
# text = In due time a second Prince was born, and the Queen was devoured with rage at the thought that Prince Alphege came between her son and the throne.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a second Prince |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **devour** | past · passive |  | the Queen |  | the thought |  | with rage | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | Alphege  Prince | the thought |  |  |  | between Queen's son and the throne | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between son=Location |

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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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