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title: The Prince on the other hand wandering continually across the meadow… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince on the other hand wandering continually across the meadows, his eyes fixed upon the ground, attentive to every movement among the moles. Who acts: other hand. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 11

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The Prince on the other hand wandering continually across the meadows, his eyes fixed upon the ground, attentive to every movement among the moles.

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**Who acts:** other hand · **What happens:** wonder, fix · **To what, where:** meadows, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (other hand), 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:pg7277:39:11
# text = The Prince on the other hand wandering continually across the meadows, his eyes fixed upon the ground, attentive to every movement among the moles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	attentive	attentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the other hand *not said here* |  |  | the meadows and Prince's eyes |  | continually *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  | Prince's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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