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title: For some time he travelled through his father’s dominions and all we… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time he travelled through his father’s dominions and all went well; but soon after passing the frontier they had to cross a desert plain under a burning sun. They were glad to take shelter under a group of trees near, and here the Prince complained of burning thirst. Who acts: Prince, domin
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 87

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For some time he travelled through his father’s dominions and all went well; but soon after passing the frontier they had to cross a desert plain under a burning sun. They were glad to take shelter under a group of trees near, and here the Prince complained of burning thirst.

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**Who acts:** Prince, dominions, frontier · **What happens:** travel, go, pass, have, cross, burn · **To what, where:** dominions, frontier, desert plain, burning sun., shelter, group

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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 (Prince, dominions, frontier), 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:pg640:22:87
# text = For some time he travelled through his father’s dominions and all went well; but soon after passing the frontier they had to cross a desert plain under a burning sun. They were glad to take shelter under a group of trees near, and here the Prince complained of burning thirst.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frontier	frontier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	near	near	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
51	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	advcl	_	_
53	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Prince |  |  | Prince's father's dominions | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dominion=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the frontier |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frontier=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past | dominions *= dominion* | the frontier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the frontier *not said here* | a desert plain |  | a burning sun. |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | dominions *= dominion* | a burning sun. *not said here* |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | to-infinitive | dominions *= dominion* *not said here* | shelter |  | a group of trees |  | near *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 9 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | the Prince |  |  | here |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **burn** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | thirst |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thirst=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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