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title: One time, when Olof was in the castle beside Hadvor, she asked the P… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One time, when Olof was in the castle beside Hadvor, she asked the Princess if she knew where Hermod had gone to. Who acts: Olof, Hermod. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 27

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One time, when Olof was in the castle beside Hadvor, she asked the Princess if she knew where Hermod had gone to.

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**Who acts:** Olof, Hermod · **What happens:** be, ask, know, go · **To what, where:** castle, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olof, Hermod), 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:pg640:49:27
# text = One time, when Olof was in the castle beside Hadvor, she asked the Princess if she knew where Hermod had gone to.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	Olof	Olof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Olof |  |  | the castle |  | beside Hadvor | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Olof |  | the Princess |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Olof |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | Hermod |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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