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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 66

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The news that the prince had brought home a bride had gone before them, and they were greeted with flowery arches and crowns of coloured lights.

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**Who acts:** news · **What happens:** bring, go, greet, crown · **To what, where:** prince, sailors, coloured lights

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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:pg2435:23:66
# text = The news that the prince had brought home a bride had gone before them, and they were greeted with flowery arches and crowns of coloured lights.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	greeted	greet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | the news *not said here* | the prince |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the news |  |  |  | before sailors *= sailor* |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · passive |  | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  | with flowery arches and crowns of coloured lights | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | coloured lights |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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