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title: The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the pr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present, but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 58

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The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present, but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** tell, go away, return, draw · **To what, where:** Irishman, carriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg640:45:58
# text = The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present, but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Irishman	irishman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 Princess |  | the Irishman |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent irishman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go away** | must | Princess |  |  |  |  | for the present; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for present=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **return** | would |  |  |  |  | day | for Irishman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  | a carriage *not said here* |  |  |  | by four grey horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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