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title: As soon as it was daylight Prince Milan stepped out of his room, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it was daylight Prince Milan stepped out of his room, and found a palace which was quite a work of art down to the very smallest detail. Who acts: palace, Prince Milan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 100

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As soon as it was daylight Prince Milan stepped out of his room, and found a palace which was quite a work of art down to the very smallest detail.

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**Who acts:** palace, Prince Milan · **What happens:** be, step out, find · **To what, where:** room, palace, work

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (palace, Prince Milan), 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:pg7277:27:100
# text = As soon as it was daylight Prince Milan stepped out of his room, and found a palace which was quite a work of art down to the very smallest detail.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | palace |  |  |  |  | as daylight | tree rules |
| 2 | **step out** | past | Prince Milan | Milan's room |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location room=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Prince Milan *not said here* | a palace |  |  |  | to the smallest detail; down *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a palace | quite work |  |  |  | of art | 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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