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title: But before the Prince had time to feel despondent the black girl bec… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But before the Prince had time to feel despondent the black girl beckoned to him in the distance from behind a rock, where she had hidden herself for fear her mother should catch sight of her. Who acts: Prince, implement. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 84

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But before the Prince had time to feel despondent the black girl beckoned to him in the distance from behind a rock, where she had hidden herself for fear her mother should catch sight of her.

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**Who acts:** Prince, implement · **What happens:** have, feel, beckon, hide, catch, sight · **To what, where:** black girl, Prince, implement, sight

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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, implement), 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:pg640:25:84
# text = But before the Prince had time to feel despondent the black girl beckoned to him in the distance from behind a rock, where she had hidden herself for fear her mother should catch sight of her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	despondent	despondent	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
35	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Prince |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | despondent the black girl | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beckon** | participle |  | the black girl *not said here* | Prince |  |  | in the distance from a rock | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **hide** | past · perfect | implement | implement |  |  |  | for fear | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **catch** | should |  | sight of implement |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | implement |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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