---
title: Walking in procession, as was their custom, they followed her into t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking in procession, as was their custom, they followed her into the loft, which was filled with caskets big and little, plain and splendid. Who acts: cats. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/) / 2

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Walking in procession, as was their custom, they followed her into the loft, which was filled with caskets big and little, plain and splendid.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** cats · **What happens:** walk, be, follow, fill · **To what, where:** procession, girl, loft

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:11:2
# text = Walking in procession, as was their custom, they followed her into the loft, which was filled with caskets big and little, plain and splendid.
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	caskets	casket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  | procession |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as cats's custom | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | cats *= cat* | girl |  | the loft |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into loft=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the loft |  |  |  | with caskets | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with casket=Instrument |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/1/)
- next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/3/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/)