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title: The Prince, too, had got lost like the rest, and wandered on for a t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince, too, had got lost like the rest, and wandered on for a time until he came to a little clearing in the forest not far from the sea, where he saw a woman sitting on a chair and a big barrel standing beside her. Who acts: Ring, woman, big barrel. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by And
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 11

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The Prince, too, had got lost like the rest, and wandered on for a time until he came to a little clearing in the forest not far from the sea, where he saw a woman sitting on a chair and a big barrel standing beside her.

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**Who acts:** Ring, woman, big barrel · **What happens:** lose, wander on, come, see, sit, stand · **To what, where:** Prince, little clearing, woman, chair

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, woman, big barrel), 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:pg640:42:11
# text = The Prince, too, had got lost like the rest, and wandered on for a time until he came to a little clearing in the forest not far from the sea, where he saw a woman sitting on a chair and a big barrel standing beside her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	clearing	clearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | like the rest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wander on** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Ring |  |  | a little clearing in the forest from the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to clearing=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | past | Ring | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | a woman *not said here* |  |  | a chair and a big barrel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | a big barrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside woman | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |

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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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