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title: But now let us return to Prince Vivien, and see what his restless sp… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But now let us return to Prince Vivien, and see what his restless spirit has brought him to. Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 24

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But now let us return to Prince Vivien, and see what his restless spirit has brought him to.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, return, see, bring · **To what, where:** us, Prince, restless spirit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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:pg7277:36:24
# text = But now let us return to Prince Vivien, and see what his restless spirit has brought him to.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to prince=Result |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | Prince's restless spirit |  |  |  |  | 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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