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title: The Prince could only appear or speak under the form of a Rainbow, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince could only appear or speak under the form of a Rainbow, and it was therefore necessary that the sun should shine on water so as to enable the rays to form themselves. Who acts: Prince, sun, rays. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with it
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 63

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The Prince could only appear or speak under the form of a Rainbow, and it was therefore necessary that the sun should shine on water so as to enable the rays to form themselves.

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**Who acts:** Prince, sun, rays · **What happens:** appear, speak, be, shine, enable, form · **To what, where:** form, water, rays, Rainbow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prince, sun, rays), 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:pg640:23:63
# text = The Prince could only appear or speak under the form of a Rainbow, and it was therefore necessary that the sun should shine on water so as to enable the rays to form themselves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	enable	enable	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | could | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  | the form of a Rainbow |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | should | the sun |  |  | water |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location |
| 5 | **enable** | to-infinitive |  | the rays |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **form** | to-infinitive | the rays *not said here* | rays *= ray* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | a Rainbow |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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