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title: That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything p… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights. Who acts: prince, everything, it. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 17

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That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights.

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**Who acts:** prince, everything, it · **What happens:** return, pass, happen

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, everything, it), 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:pg641:7:17
# text = That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the prince |  |  |  | evening | to the apple tree *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | everything |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 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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