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title: The fairies entered the queen's chamber followed by little dwarfs wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairies entered the queen's chamber followed by little dwarfs who carried their presents and looked much prouder than their mistresses. Who acts: fairies, little dwarfs. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 58

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The fairies entered the queen's chamber followed by little dwarfs who carried their presents and looked much prouder than their mistresses.

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**Who acts:** fairies, little dwarfs · **What happens:** enter, follow, carry, look · **To what, where:** chamber, presents

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, little dwarfs), 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:pg3027:22:58
# text = The fairies entered the queen's chamber followed by little dwarfs who carried their presents and looked much prouder than their mistresses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	prouder	proud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the fairies | the queen's chamber |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | the queen's chamber *not said here* |  |  |  | by little dwarfs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dwarf=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | past | little dwarfs | fairies's presents |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | little dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 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.

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