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title: Another moment and it had vanished completely, and the prince took t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Another moment and it had vanished completely, and the prince took the ring and made his way back to the palace. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 40

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Another moment and it had vanished completely, and the prince took the ring and made his way back to the palace.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** vanish, take, make back · **To what, where:** moment, ring, way

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg641:42:40
# text = Another moment and it had vanished completely, and the prince took the ring and made his way back to the palace.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect · passive |  | another moment |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the prince | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 3 | **make back** | past | the prince *not said here* | prince's way |  |  |  | to the palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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