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title: Here they stayed several days, while the Prince provided himself wit… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they stayed several days, while the Prince provided himself with horses and attendants, and made many enquiries about the Princess Sabella, and the way to her kingdom, which was still so far away that he could hear but little, and that of the vaguest description, but when he presently reached M
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 51

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Here they stayed several days, while the Prince provided himself with horses and attendants, and made many enquiries about the Princess Sabella, and the way to her kingdom, which was still so far away that he could hear but little, and that of the vaguest description, but when he presently reached Mount Caucasus it was quite a different matter.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Prince, kingdom, it · **What happens:** stay, provide, make, be, hear, reach · **To what, where:** Prince, many enquiries, Mount Caucasus, different matter

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Prince, kingdom, 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:pg7277:15:51
# text = Here they stayed several days, while the Prince provided himself with horses and attendants, and made many enquiries about the Princess Sabella, and the way to her kingdom, which was still so far away that he could hear but little, and that of the vaguest description, but when he presently reached Mount Caucasus it was quite a different matter.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	vaguest	vague	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	amod	_	_
51	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
54	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	57	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	advcl	_	_
58	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
62	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	65	det:predet	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Fairy |  |  | here | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | past | the Prince | Prince |  |  |  | with horses and attendants | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with horse=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Fairy *not said here* | many enquiries |  |  |  | about the Princess Sabella | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | way's kingdom |  |  |  | still | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | could | Prince |  |  |  |  | of the vaguest description but quite different matter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of description=Stimulus |
| 6 | **reach** | past | Prince | Mount Caucasus |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent caucasus=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past | it | quite different matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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