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title: Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women, and had marrie… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women, and had married two powerful kings who ruled over great countries across the sea. Who acts: two eldest princesses, two powerful kings. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15

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Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women, and had married two powerful kings who ruled over great countries across the sea.

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**Who acts:** two eldest princesses, two powerful kings · **What happens:** become, marry, rule · **To what, where:** women, two powerful kings, great countries, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two eldest princesses, two powerful kings), 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:pg2435:7:15
# text = Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women, and had married two powerful kings who ruled over great countries across the sea.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | the two eldest princesses | women |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect | the two eldest princesses *not said here* | two powerful kings |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 3 | **rule** | past | two powerful kings | great countries |  | the sea |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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