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title: The brothers Simon came on board to conduct the princess to their sh… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers Simon came on board to conduct the princess to their ship, and, led by the brothers and followed by her nurse and other women, she crossed the crystal plank from one vessel to another. Who acts: brothers, princess. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 92

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The brothers Simon came on board to conduct the princess to their ship, and, led by the brothers and followed by her nurse and other women, she crossed the crystal plank from one vessel to another.

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**Who acts:** brothers, princess · **What happens:** come, conduct, lead, follow, cross · **To what, where:** board, princess, ship, crystal plank, another, one vessel

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, princess), 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:pg2435:5:92
# text = The brothers Simon came on board to conduct the princess to their ship, and, led by the brothers and followed by her nurse and other women, she crossed the crystal plank from one vessel to another.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the brothers |  |  | board |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location |
| 2 | **conduct** | to-infinitive | the brothers *not said here* | the princess |  | soldiers's ship |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to ship=Destination |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the brothers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by brother=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by princess's nurse and other women | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by nurse=Location |
| 5 | **cross** | past | princess | the crystal plank | another | one vessel |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plank=Patient to another=Recipient |

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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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