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title: She therefore sent the Prince a large and splendid ruby, with injunc… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She therefore sent the Prince a large and splendid ruby, with injunctions to wear it night and day as it would protect him from all attacks, but added that the talisman only retained its power as long as the Prince remained within his father’s dominions. Who acts: Queen, ruby, talisman, Prince. A se
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 78

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She therefore sent the Prince a large and splendid ruby, with injunctions to wear it night and day as it would protect him from all attacks, but added that the talisman only retained its power as long as the Prince remained within his father’s dominions.

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**Who acts:** Queen, ruby, talisman, Prince · **What happens:** send, wear, protect, add, retain, remain · **To what, where:** large ruby, Prince, ruby, power

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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 (Queen, ruby, talisman, Prince), 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:pg640:22:78
# text = She therefore sent the Prince a large and splendid ruby, with injunctions to wear it night and day as it would protect him from all attacks, but added that the talisman only retained its power as long as the Prince remained within his father’s dominions.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	injunctions	injunction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	talisman	talisman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
44	within	within	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Queen | a large ruby | the Prince |  |  | with injunctions; therefore *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Destination ruby=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | ruby |  |  | night |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | would | ruby |  | Prince |  |  | from all attacks | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from attack=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **retain** | past | the talisman | talisman's power |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | within Prince's father's dominions | vn exist-47.1 «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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