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title: The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of bein… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him. 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 every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 37

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The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him.

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**What happens:** leave, get, be, begin, look, amuse · **To what, where:** prince, castle

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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: 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:pg641:7:37
# text = The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the prince |  | the castle |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in castle=Location |
| 2 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of prince | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for something; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme |
| 6 | **amuse** | to-infinitive |  | prince |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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