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title: Prince Alphege was at this time fourteen years old, and the handsome… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Alphege was at this time fourteen years old, and the handsomest and most engaging youth imaginable. Who acts: Alphege, most. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 83

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Prince Alphege was at this time fourteen years old, and the handsomest and most engaging youth imaginable.

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**Who acts:** Alphege, most · **What happens:** be, engage · **To what, where:** youth

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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, most), 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:pg640:22:83
# text = Prince Alphege was at this time fourteen years old, and the handsomest and most engaging youth imaginable.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj	_	_
16	engaging	engage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Alphege  Prince |  |  |  | at this time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **engage** | gerund | most | youth |  |  |  | imaginable *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=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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