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title: But in the meantime the Prince, with the help of his ring, had had a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the meantime the Prince, with the help of his ring, had had a most successful journey, and no evil had befallen him. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 58

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But in the meantime the Prince, with the help of his ring, had had a most successful journey, and no evil had befallen him.

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**What happens:** have, befall, help · **To what, where:** successful journey, meantime, evil, ring

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:30:58
# text = But in the meantime the Prince, with the help of his ring, had had a most successful journey, and no evil had befallen him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect |  | a successful journey |  | the meantime and the help of King's ring |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient |
| 2 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive |  | no evil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** |  |  | King's ring |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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