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title: One morning, as Prince Alphege’s governess and her daughter were alo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning, as Prince Alphege’s governess and her daughter were alone together, the little monkey sprang in through an open window. Who acts: governess, little monkey. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 1

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One morning, as Prince Alphege’s governess and her daughter were alone together, the little monkey sprang in through an open window.

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**Who acts:** governess, little monkey · **What happens:** be, spring in · **To what, where:** open window

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (governess, little monkey), 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:pg640:23:1
# text = One morning, as Prince Alphege’s governess and her daughter were alone together, the little monkey sprang in through an open window.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	governess	governess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Alphege  Prince's governess and Alphege's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spring in** | past | the little monkey |  |  | a open window | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory |

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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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