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title: The Prince told him of the misfortune that had befallen him, and of… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince told him of the misfortune that had befallen him, and of the necessity of recovering the mare and foal. Who acts: Prince, misfortune, necessity. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 23

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The Prince told him of the misfortune that had befallen him, and of the necessity of recovering the mare and foal.

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**Who acts:** Prince, misfortune, necessity · **What happens:** tell, befall, recover · **To what, where:** house, Prince, mare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, misfortune, necessity), 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:pg640:32:23
# text = The Prince told him of the misfortune that had befallen him, and of the necessity of recovering the mare and foal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  | house |  |  | of the misfortune | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **befall** | past · perfect | the misfortune | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** | gerund | the necessity *not said here* | the mare and foal |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme |

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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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