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title: The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened away before the return of the shepherdess, who became that evening the butt of everybody’s jests. Who acts: Prince, witchcraft, shepherdess, everybody. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 25

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The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened away before the return of the shepherdess, who became that evening the butt of everybody’s jests.

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**Who acts:** Prince, witchcraft, shepherdess, everybody · **What happens:** think, be, hasten away, become, return, jest · **To what, where:** work, return, butt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prince, witchcraft, shepherdess, everybody), 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:pg7277:24:25
# text = The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened away before the return of the shepherdess, who became that evening the butt of everybody’s jests.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	jests	jest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | must | some witchcraft |  |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten away** | past | Prince |  |  | the return of the shepherdess |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before return=Trajectory |
| 4 | **become** | past | the shepherdess | the butt of everybody's jests |  |  | evening |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **return** |  | the shepherdess |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **jest** |  | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | nom jest «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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