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title: So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born, his parents hid h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses and servants, and everything else a king’s son might desire. Who acts: fair young Prince, parents, everything. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Win
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 51

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So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses and servants, and everything else a king’s son might desire.

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**Who acts:** fair young Prince, parents, everything · **What happens:** be, bear, hide away, desire · **To what, where:** due time, child, underground palace

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair young Prince, parents, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:20:52
# text = So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses and servants, and everything else a king’s son might desire.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	_
31	else	else	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a fair young Prince |  |  |  | in due time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | due time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hide away** | past | child's parents | child |  | a underground palace |  | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in palace=Location |
| 4 | **desire** | might | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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