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title: One day the Giant took him round and showed him all his rooms except… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the Giant took him round and showed him all his rooms except the parlour; this made the Prince curious to have a look into it, thinking there must be some very rare treasure there. Who acts: Giant, this. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 29

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One day the Giant took him round and showed him all his rooms except the parlour; this made the Prince curious to have a look into it, thinking there must be some very rare treasure there.

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**Who acts:** Giant, this · **What happens:** take, show, make, have, think, be · **To what, where:** Prince, rooms, look, rare treasure

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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 (Giant, this), 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:pg640:42:29
# text = One day the Giant took him round and showed him all his rooms except the parlour; this made the Prince curious to have a look into it, thinking there must be some very rare treasure there.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Giant |  | Prince |  | day | round *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **show** | past | the Giant *not said here* | Prince's rooms | Prince |  |  | except the parlour | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past | this | the Prince |  |  |  | curious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=Product |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | a look |  | look |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | this *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | must |  | some rare treasure |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

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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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