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title: He returned to the castle as quickly as he could, and told the Fairy… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He returned to the castle as quickly as he could, and told the Fairy that her commands were obeyed. Who acts: Prince, Fairy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 78

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He returned to the castle as quickly as he could, and told the Fairy that her commands were obeyed.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Fairy · **What happens:** return, tell, obey, command · **To what, where:** Fairy, commands · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy), 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:pg640:25:78
# text = He returned to the castle as quickly as he could, and told the Fairy that her commands were obeyed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | to the castle *result*; quickly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince *not said here* |  | the Fairy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **obey** | past · passive |  | Fairy's commands |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **command** |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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