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title: One evening late they reached the capital, and the wolf advised the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening late they reached the capital, and the wolf advised the Prince to set to work at once, before their presence in the city had aroused the watchfulness of the guards. Who acts: princes, wolf, presence. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its depend
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 43

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One evening late they reached the capital, and the wolf advised the Prince to set to work at once, before their presence in the city had aroused the watchfulness of the guards.

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**Who acts:** princes, wolf, presence · **What happens:** reach, advise, set, work, arouse · **To what, where:** capital, Prince, watchfulness, city · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, wolf, presence), 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:pg7277:52:43
# text = One evening late they reached the capital, and the wolf advised the Prince to set to work at once, before their presence in the city had aroused the watchfulness of the guards.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **reach** | past | princes *= prince* | the capital |  |  | evening | late *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the wolf | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before princes's presence |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme |
| 5 | **arouse** | past · perfect | princes's presence *not said here* | the watchfulness of the guards |  | the city |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus watchfulness=Experiencer |

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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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