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title: As soon as the fright began to pass off he tried it again, for he th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the fright began to pass off he tried it again, for he thought it would be interesting to hear what it said; but things went just as before with him. Who acts: Prince, fright, things. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 32

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As soon as the fright began to pass off he tried it again, for he thought it would be interesting to hear what it said; but things went just as before with him.

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**Who acts:** Prince, fright, things · **What happens:** begin, pass off, try, think, be, hear · **To what, where:** fright · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, fright, things), 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:pg640:42:32
# text = As soon as the fright began to pass off he tried it again, for he thought it would be interesting to hear what it said; but things went just as before with him.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the fright; soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | past | Prince | fright |  |  | again |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fright |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **go** | past | things |  |  |  |  | with Prince; before *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |

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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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