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title: The further the Prince went the more he noticed that the pocket in w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The further the Prince went the more he noticed that the pocket in which the little roll of linen lay became heavier, and in proportion his heart grew lighter. Who acts: Prince, little roll, pocket, heart. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependenc
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 89

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The further the Prince went the more he noticed that the pocket in which the little roll of linen lay became heavier, and in proportion his heart grew lighter.

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**Who acts:** Prince, little roll, pocket, heart · **What happens:** go, notice, lay, become, grow, roll · **To what, where:** pocket, proportion, linen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Prince, little roll, pocket, heart), 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:pg7277:29:89
# text = The further the Prince went the more he noticed that the pocket in which the little roll of linen lay became heavier, and in proportion his heart grew lighter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
22	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay** | present | the little roll of linen |  |  | the pocket |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | past | the pocket |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | past | Prince's heart |  |  | proportion |  | light *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in proportion=Location |
| 6 | **roll** |  |  | linen |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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