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title: The King’s son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lov… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lovely damsel a long way off, and wished to look at her closer. Who acts: son, way. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 19

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The King’s son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lovely damsel a long way off, and wished to look at her closer.

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**Who acts:** son, way · **What happens:** lose, hunt, perceive, wish, look · **To what, where:** way, lovely damsel

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, way), 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:pg7277:24:19
# text = The King’s son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lovely damsel a long way off, and wished to look at her closer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	off	off	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | the King's son | son's way |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | son's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | the King's son | this lovely damsel |  |  |  | a long way *obl:unmarked* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wish** | participle | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Princess's closer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at close=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 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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