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title: The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barre… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barrel floating out from the land and tossing about on the waves. Who acts: Prince, barrel. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 18

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The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barrel floating out from the land and tossing about on the waves.

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**Who acts:** Prince, barrel · **What happens:** think, feel, float out, toss · **To what, where:** Prince, bad plight, barrel, land, waves

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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 (Prince, 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:pg640:42:18
# text = The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barrel floating out from the land and tossing about on the waves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Prince | Prince |  | a bad plight |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Prince | the barrel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **float out** | gerund | the barrel *not said here* |  |  | the land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory |
| 4 | **toss** | gerund | the barrel *not said here* |  |  | the waves |  | about *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on wave=Destination |

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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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