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title: She had felt sure from the first that her son’s pet monkey was no ot… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had felt sure from the first that her son’s pet monkey was no other than Prince Alphege, and she longed to put an end to him. Who acts: Queen, pet monkey. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 24

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She had felt sure from the first that her son’s pet monkey was no other than Prince Alphege, and she longed to put an end to him.

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**Who acts:** Queen, pet monkey · **What happens:** feel, be, long, put · **To what, where:** end, Prince

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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 (Queen, pet 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:pg640:23:24
# text = She had felt sure from the first that her son’s pet monkey was no other than Prince Alphege, and she longed to put an end to him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · perfect | Queen |  |  |  |  | first, sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Queen's son's pet monkey |  |  |  |  | than Alphege  Prince; other *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **long** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | a end | Prince |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |

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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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