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title: In the meantime Prince Fadasse and all the others who had remained b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 14

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In the meantime Prince Fadasse and all the others who had remained behind were setting out with all speed for the conquest of the Ice Mountain, being afraid that Prince Mannikin might prove as successful in that as he seemed to be in everything else, and when Mannikin returned he heard of it with great annoyance.

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**Who acts:** others, Mannikin · **What happens:** remain, set out, be, prove, seem, return · **To what, where:** that, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Mannikin), 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:pg7277:17:14
# text = In the meantime Prince Fadasse and all the others who had remained behind were setting out with all speed for the conquest of the Ice Mountain, being afraid that Prince Mannikin might prove as successful in that as he seemed to be in everything else, and when Mannikin returned he heard of it with great annoyance.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Fadasse	Fadasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	41	xcomp	_	_
46	else	else	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
50	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past · perfect | all others |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past · progressive | all others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all speed; for the conquest of the Ice Mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **prove** | might | Mannikin  Prince |  |  | that |  | as successful | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as successful=Attribute |
| 5 | **seem** | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* |  |  | everything |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **return** | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hear** | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  | of Mountain; with great annoyance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |

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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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