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title: At the exit of the wood the lion stood still, and the Prince took le… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the exit of the wood the lion stood still, and the Prince took leave of him, having first thanked him warmly for his kind protection. Who acts: lion, Prince, mass. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 7

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At the exit of the wood the lion stood still, and the Prince took leave of him, having first thanked him warmly for his kind protection.

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**Who acts:** lion, Prince, mass · **What happens:** stand, take, have, thank, protect · **To what, where:** exit, leave, mass

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (lion, Prince, mass), 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:pg640:31:7
# text = At the exit of the wood the lion stood still, and the Prince took leave of him, having first thanked him warmly for his kind protection.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
22	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the lion |  |  | the exit of the wood | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at exit=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Prince | leave of mass |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the Prince *not said here* |  | mass |  |  | for mass's kind protection; first, warmly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for protection=Attribute |
| 5 | **protect** |  | mass |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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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