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title: He therefore went to the royal castle, obtained an audience of the P… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore went to the royal castle, obtained an audience of the Princess, and told her about the strange things he had seen in the underground palace. Who acts: thing. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 87

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He therefore went to the royal castle, obtained an audience of the Princess, and told her about the strange things he had seen in the underground palace.

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**Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** go, obtain, tell, see · **To what, where:** royal castle, audience, Princess, strange things, underground palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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:pg640:7:87
# text = He therefore went to the royal castle, obtained an audience of the Princess, and told her about the strange things he had seen in the underground palace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | thing |  |  | the royal castle |  | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | thing *not said here* | a audience of the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset audience=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | thing *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  | about the strange things | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about thing=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | thing | the strange things *not said here* |  | the underground palace |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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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