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title: So they all set out, guided by birds, and after some days came to th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they all set out, guided by birds, and after some days came to the cave where the unfortunate Prince had been chained up for nearly seven years. Who acts: princes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 197

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So they all set out, guided by birds, and after some days came to the cave where the unfortunate Prince had been chained up for nearly seven years.

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**Who acts:** princes · **What happens:** set out, guide, come, chain up · **To what, where:** cave, unfortunate Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes), 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:pg640:5:197
# text = So they all set out, guided by birds, and after some days came to the cave where the unfortunate Prince had been chained up for nearly seven years.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | present | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **guide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the cave | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **chain up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the unfortunate Prince |  |  | year |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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